176 Quotes About Coming-out

If a young person experiences same-sex attraction, nothing you can say will change that experience. However, what you say can impact whether or not that student feels safe with you and whether or not they will be willing to share their story with you.

Gay is not about fashion, being rich, drag queens or queer or the color pink. What gay is about is love, self-happiness, unity, contentment, emotions.' Gay is a lot of things. I'm gay, but gay is not what I'm about. Gay is just a part of me.

(at age thirteen) I think sharks smile like women dad. Like Jenny's smiling at you right now. ...But have you ever noticed how porpoises smile like effeminate men? They're bi-sexual, you know. Me, I'd rather have sex with a porpoise than a shark.

Being gay wasn't his complete identity, but it felt like an important part of himself. And he wanted to be the one to control who knew.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.