Age Quote by Rufus Wainwright

I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

— Karamo Brown

It was shortly before my 18th birthday when I came out and admitted that I was gay.

— Conchita Wurst

Once we got signed, I moved out of my house because I was having teenage issues with my mom. It really wasn't my fault,…

— Syd

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I was able to come out as gay publicly because my family had accepted me. They thought nothing of it, and without them I…

— Gareth Thomas

There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they…

— KT Tunstall

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

— Joe Lycett

I knew I was gay at 18, but to come out then would have meant I would not have achieved what I did in…

— Gareth Thomas

I was a 24-year-old, Afro-Latino, gay kid struggling to fully come to terms with his sexual identity, and terrified to run as an openly…

— Ritchie Torres

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that…

— Boy George

By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly…

— Chelsea Manning

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

— Maurice Sendak