This collection holds 10 life man gay quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Luke Evans, Jeanne Marie Laskas and Sam Smith.

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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.

With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier.

Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore.

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

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