"Openly Straight" Quotes
A gay teenager decides to keep his sexuality a secret when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school, but learns that pretending to be someone he's not comes with its own set of challenges.
lgbt | 320 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
It's a lot easier to be gay than it is to be straight. It's the straight people who really have to work at it.
Maybe it's not about labels. Maybe we don't have to label ourselves as gay or straight or whatever. Maybe we just love who we love and that's it.
Being openly gay means living in a world where people hate you just because of who you are.
Sometimes it feels like people only see me as 'the gay kid'. But I'm so much more than that.
Coming out is a personal journey, and everyone's experience is different. There is no right or wrong way to do it.
Love doesn't have boundaries. It doesn't care about gender or societal expectations. Love just is.
It's exhausting trying to fit into everyone's expectations of who I should be. I just want to be myself.
Being gay is just one part of my identity. It doesn't define me entirely.
In a world that tells you to hide who you are, being openly gay is an act of bravery.
Love knows no gender. It's about the connection between two souls, not their physical appearance.
