No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not...

It is hard to be unhappy in a gay bar where everyone's singing show tunes! In fact, I've spent many a night in those kind of places - in that particular place, actually - Marie's Crisis: it's truly a...

I think I was more just not comfortable with saying it. I was also in denial. I was like, 'I'm not gay, am I?' Cause I think, also the fact that I didn't fit the stereotypical mold of what a lesbian...

My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.

It's time for gay people to be in the industry and talking about their stories.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I think any gay comedian will acknowledge the fact that he or she is gay - it's not a coincidence, it's deeply who they are.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

I grew up thinking being gay was bad and a sin. I went to the gay club once and it was so impactful, like magic. It was the opposite of everything I was taught.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.

Everyone I dated was gay.

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly,...

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

I think people now - you know, a lot of athletes have come out and said, I would definitely accept, you know, a gay male athlete in the locker room and on my team.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of...

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was...

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more...

For the record, I am gay.

Growing up as a gay boy during the holidays, there's the things you want to ask for, and then the things you ask for because you're afraid of asking for what you really want.

Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.