Quotes About Acceptance

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

I don't know if I make the best gay films.

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

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

I've had so many crushes on gay boys.

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.

I've been gay since the day I was born.

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

I have put gay dating on the map.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.