Grew Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.

— La'Porsha Renae

I'm a heterosexual. I don't know why I'm like this. I was just born this way.

— Roseanne Barr

So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a…

— Chaz Bono

I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and…

— Pete Buttigieg

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

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being…

— Chely Wright

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

— George Michael

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to…

— Neil Tennant

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it…

— Rob Halford

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life,

— Sheryl Swoopes

I'd always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had…

— Calum Scott

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

— Marilyn Frye