Known Quote by Perfume Genius

I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of…

— Hozier

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who…

— Miriam Margolyes

And I'm not homophobic.

— Gautham Menon

People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn't have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can't be true.

— Bernice King

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody…

— ASAP Rocky

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

— Art Malik

I was never raised with anybody telling me that gay was bad.

— Ryan McGinley

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

— Dolly Parton

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

— Daryl Davis

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

— Christopher Monckton

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

— Joseph Stiglitz