I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
My queer black women peers are the ones who make me not feel crazy. The way we act is so instinctive.
I always assumed that my otherness was a curse - that I would be held back by my Asian and queer identities.
The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
I'm a big fan of World of Wonder in general. They really are the queens of queer culture.
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.
It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.
I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.
The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.
I do my best to surround myself with queer people. I don't go to straight bars and it's quite frankly because I don't feel comfortable there.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.
Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.
All heist movies are about gadgetry, ultimately, which feels very queer.
I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.
A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.
Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.
For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated.
Yes, I would definitely let the 'Queer Eye' - I mean, cameras - follow me for my marriage.
I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.
Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.
I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it because that is who I am.
We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.
I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.
Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen.
Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.
That's the beauty of 'Queer Eye' coming back. No matter how far you think we've come as a society, there's still work that needs to be done.
Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.
I know that it's my queer perspective that's helping people make songs that the world is listening to.
Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Especially when you're queer and you're a person of color, you're so used to being the token on set. Inevitably you have to answer dumb questions from someone. You're the 'other.'
I'm the parent of a queer child, and for my kid to know that they can always come to me and I'm going to love them no matter what is the biggest gift.
You can celebrate pride, by lifting up what Black queer people have given us.
I wonder if there's space to queer the nomenclature in fitness. Maybe we call a goblet squat a Dannii Minogue instead? Just an idea.
I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.
I have many queer friends who I consider to be heroes of mine, and they feel the same way toward me.
As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.
I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to.
A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.
Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.
I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.
I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.
Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.
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