Quotes on Closet

I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we're always protecting other people: 'I can't do this, because it's gonna hurt so-and-so.' We're trying to live the lives of other people, and that's the worst thing you can do.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.