Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
