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Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

— Kurt Cobain

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

— Rupert Graves

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

— Sheryl Swoopes

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

— Chely Wright

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

— Laura Innes

Everyone I dated was gay.

— Debbie Reynolds

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

— Rick Mercer

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

— Portia de Rossi

✗Opposing Perspectives

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

— Cat Cora

I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'

— Jane Lynch

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

— Melissa McCarthy