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My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.