“I am tired of talking about coming out. I am out. Coming out was not the point of my story. It was the end of the first act. There’s so much story after that.”— Casey McQuiston, oprahdaily.com
“Siwa doesn’t owe us a single thing, but as I approach my 30s, I’m deeply grateful to her anyway.”— Emma Specter, vogue.com
“Ellen crawled so Kirsten Stewart could walk, Elliot Page walked so millennials could run, and millennials ran so Gen Z could fly.”— Valerie Anne, autostraddle.com
“I don’t want to pass because it feels like lying. And the longer I wait, the more it shifts from feeling like 'just' lies of omission to outright lies of commission.”— Gillian Morshedi, medium.com
“I have to join my two lives back together. My life did not start at 22, even though that’s how it feels.”— Alison Hinman, medium.com
“Being closeted is like living in an alternate world within this world. The membrane is thin – you can clearly see everything outside of you – but it’s impenetrable”— Olivia Typaldos, gomag.com
“Courtney and Chris got used to sharing the same identity: the twin identity. Experts say this shared identity results in an inexplicable connection that can have both positive and negative effects on twins.”— Cristina Montemayor, verygoodlight.com
“The way I feel about cis men now is the same way I feel about Triscuits. If I was starving on an airplane, I suppose I could eat some Triscuits, but do you have freshly baked bread? Is there butter?”— Lauren Duca, out.com
“You need to stop returning to the same empty well, looking for water.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Coming out, to me, just seems so '90s, you know?”— Liz Doran, Thomas Ward, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“O’Hara’s sideline kiss wasn’t bold. It was your humdrum, everyday, post-win kiss, and that’s what makes it monumental.”— Jill Gutowitz, glamour.com
“I sometimes describe my dating decision-making processes as a being like a child standing in front of a stove. The red-hot glow of messy lesbian dating calls to me, and it feels impossible not to reach out and touch.”— Amanda Richards, instyle.com
“I was public because I started to receive stories from kids who read online that I was gay. They were going through being bullied, feeling like their family didn’t love them, being pushed out of their home, very close to suicide. Just things that really pulled on my heart. I started saying, ‘You kno…”— Tim Cook, 9to5mac.com
“Whatever the case, Tyler, as ever, probably doesn't give a fuck.”— Christopher Hooton, independent.co.uk
“Joan Clarke: Alan, what's happened? Alan Turing: [pause] We can't be engaged anymore. Your parents need to take you back. Find you a husband elsewhere. Joan Clarke: What's wrong with you? Alan Turing: I have something to tell you. I'm... I'm a homosexual. Joan Clarke: All right. Alan Turing: No, no,…”— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com
“Remember that it’s temporary. Remember that this can’t take away who you are.”— John Paul Brammer, them.us
“When I first started having these feelings, I didn't want to be queer. I'm already biracial; I couldn't imagine adding queer to that label.”— Mika Doyle, bustle.com
“It’s just part of me, it’s not something that I feel the need to telegraph immediately anymore.”— Katie Heaney, them.us