“I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.” MenShouldStoriesShowsDreamEyeKidsWantedCultureTvsGoes OnGayAdultsPopsHostDreams Come TruePop CultureHousewifeTrue StoryTalk ShowsWinding Up Author:Andy Cohen
“Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.” IfsThinkingShouldAmericaLeaderBoysGayAdultsBoy ScoutBoy Scouts Of America Author:Bear Grylls
“New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was in the first place. Let alone his sexuality. What concerns me is adults who read 800-page books about magic schoolboys... and then try to talk to me about it. If I had the slightest interest in homosexuals with powers, I'd be a Republican.” IfsKnowsGivingTryingFirstsTwoBookWantedInterestMagicRepublicanGayPagesAdultsConcernSexualityHomosexualTalk To Me Author:Bill Maher
“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.” WayYearsFirstsHumansChildrenHas BeensVoiceSilenceAttitudeSituationFiguresFitGayAdultsRelationSizeCurrentsActiveNineHandleDesperateDimensionsComplaintsEighteenSexuallyNine YearsOne Size Fits All Author:Samuel R. Delany
“I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.” PeopleWayYearsChildrenFoundSexKnownGayAdultsPartnersBeing GayHeterosexuality Author:Nell Zink
“We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsKindWarHandsKidsSchoolCultureMorningGayBeatsAdultsAbuseLaysAbstractJailMondayLicenseBallotsGay PeopleAfarRoaringMonday MorningBashers Author:Dan Savage
“We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.” MenValuesBlackWhiteGayAdultsSkinsBlack SkinWhite SkinGay Love Author:Charlize Theron
“Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.” MenYearsBelieveWellsI BelieveGayBehaviorAdultsTownsTechniqueSan FranciscoArrestedGay MenEntrapment Author:Cleve Jones
“I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.” KindNextImagineMediaGayAdultsActivismI RealizedTeenagerMeant To Be Author:Rachel Maddow
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager” PeopleMenHas BeensYoungNumbersHe ManGayAdultsMajorityMalesSignificantTeenagerHomosexualityHomosexualSignificant Numbers Author:Scott Lively