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I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

— John Galliano

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

— Ian Mckellen

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

— Chaz Bono

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

— Pink

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.

— Boy George

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

— Helen Fisher

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

— Stefano Gabbana

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

— Ken Livingstone

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

— Dan Savage

✗Opposing Perspectives

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

— Ira Sachs

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

— Cristina Saralegui