Quotes About Coming out

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

This was insanity. This was coming out of my mouth and it was madness.

Around them the other residents of Quebec City were waking up. Coming out into the tender morning light to shovel, to scrape the snow from their cars, to walk to the boulangerie for their morning baguette and café.

Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

If you're in a spiritual slump, let me give you a prescription: go on a mission trip.33 There is no better or sure way of coming out of the cage of routine. It's a cure-all.

Coming out for gay people is a process, not a one-time event. Some days you feel free, open, and ready to piss on the world if they care what you do in bed. On other days, even if you've been out to yourself and others, you're ready to hide in the darkest closet—because sometimes it is safer, easier, and more secure to hide.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

I'm gay," I said, not sure how else to say it. "You're fifteen," she said. "You can't be gay.

I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.

Straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

So many gay plotlines revolve around a traumatic coming out, with an evangelical dad intoning, "I have no son!

Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.