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James McGreevey

When you’re a young kid and you’re gay, you’re out there on your own. And you’re trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren’t gay.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn’t like everybody else. I mean I wasn’t like the other kids. I didn’t know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I’m like, ‘Hey, something’s wrong here.’

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

I’m enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier – as though, after decades in the public eye, they’d suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being – the core of who I’ve always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

I think – I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that’s part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it’s self loathing. It’s self denial. And you keep that separate.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

I’m on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It’s designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father’s joy.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

– James McGreevey

James McGreevey

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

– James McGreevey

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