"I didn't want to tell her, but before I left, we had been through so much together and, you know, I had never lied to her. And so I sat her down and said, 'Look, I know you think I've been seeing a girl, but actually, I've been seeing a guy.'"
"She said, 'You mean you're a homosexual?' And I had never heard it put that way. And I said, 'Yeah, I guess so.' And she didn't say it in a vindictive or angry way. She said it with a sort of sadness, 'I would rather you were dead.'"
"You have to understand this is another generation, and that was, you know, this was not a sophisticated person in that way."
"My brother Dan, a teacher, was largely supportive, though he did ask whether it might 'just be a phase.' His other brother's reaction was simpler. 'He was like, 'I love you no matter what,' Lane said. 'He didn't seem to care.'"
Nathan Lane recounted the moment he came out to his mother, revealing he had been seeing a man instead of a woman. His mother responded with sadness, expressing a wish that he were dead. Lane approached the conversation with hope for understanding, but his mother's reaction reflected her generational perspective. He requested her not to inform his brothers, but she did. One brother was supportive, while the other simply expressed love regardless of Lane's sexuality. Lane publicly came out in 1999 after his role in The Birdcage.
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