When I was a teenager, the BIGGEST heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner BROS. until he was exposed as gay, and his career FADED. That was an object lesson. I KNEW I must PROTECT my sexual orientation.

The federal GOVERNMENT has no business in restricting basic human RIGHTS BASED on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect EQUALITY at EVERY turn in Congress.

The ambiguous orientation of JAPAN drove the COUNTRY into the POSITION of an invader in ASIA.

I won't be allowing my own BACKGROUND or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I MAKE.

My DEAR compatriots, I'm not interested in your RACE, your origin, your SEXUAL orientation. What interests me is your HAPPINESS.

My first STUDENT FILM was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for ANIMAL HOUSE. There are a COUPLE of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

I think I've always had that orientation to TRY to understand the humanity BEHIND PEOPLE with whom I DISAGREE.

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or GENDER IDENTITY, need SOMEONE who's got their back.

I try to treat my orientation the same WAY I would if I was STRAIGHT, which is to talk about it when it's RELEVANT.

I actually went to the UNIVERSITY as a PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR, and at orientation, they took us AROUND the campus and took us to the theater for a skit. At the end of the skit, I literally COULD not get up out of my seat.

You're on FACEBOOK, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody REALLY knows what's going on at that time, and PEOPLE seem to... know stuff, or they have to act LIKE they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be DICTATED by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a LOT of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in LOVE with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to SAY, 'No you can't be married.'

I will represent all of the PEOPLE of Ohio, REGARDLESS of their BACKGROUND. I don't CARE if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to RACE, religion or any kind of orientation.

I often have to play a role to get what I want in my LIFE. At the same time, I can't do that without also nourishing who I really am and being AWARE of my true self and the ways in which I'm not BOUND by my RACE or sexual orientation or class or country or WHATEVER.

I have NEVER, EVER talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my CONCERN. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been BROUGHT up to talk about my sex LIFE.