My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.
The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.