When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
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.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.
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.
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.
My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.