I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Quentin CrispAmerica believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
Quentin CrispNothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin CrispWhen I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
Quentin Crisp