“A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.” WayLightSawsFlowerGrewGayLaysModestMeadows Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!” KnowsGuyForceStudyAirGrewGayGrew UpTwentiesDancingSouthGearsAir ForceGay Guy Author:Morgan Freeman
“Here was long period on my life when I was very disappointed by the fact I wasn't gay. Because I grew up going to gay clubs, living in New York and LA, both very gay cities.” LongFactsCitiesNew YorkGrewPeriodsGayGrew UpClubsDisappointed Author:Moby
“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.” ThinkingChildrenLongFeelingsGrowsGrowing UpConditionsGrewGayGrew UpTragedyMeaningfulLeaving MeHaving ChildrenLong Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.” MenMotherMy OwnInspiringGrewGayExtraordinaryPassingPassingsSpiteMothers DayGay MenSurrogatesExtraordinary Love Author:Anne Lamott
“You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.” KnowsAgeGrewGayGrew UpRepressed Author:Alan Ball
“Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.” ThinkingMenGrewGayGrew UpTheaterRaisedMusicalGay MenMusical Theater Author:A. J. McLean
“I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.” PeopleMenWorldYearsBrotherGrewGayMarriedGrew UpMy Brother Author:Kevin Smith
“I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.” RememberSeeingGrewGayGrew UpMovedWitnessMilkHarvey Author:Margaret Cho