Quotes from Tommy Dorfman

Being young is hard. Being young and queer is even harder, regardless of how accepting your parents or community are.

It's important to celebrate how far we have come while also fighting for justice for those who are still not safe as a result of how they identify.

LGBTQIA inclusion in media, especially TV and film, is not just important, it's essential.

It's so important to have a brand as big as UGG celebrating young LGBTQ-plus people and giving them a safe space to feel worthy and loved.

There is no Cura Gay, there's just gay. Or not. Or however you identify, and nobody should have say over something so personal and inherent.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of five. There's something about being the youngest and wanting to be seen. You're like, 'I want attention, notice me.'

I think for me, I just love that trust you have with theater and your ensemble and people you are working with.

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

There always has to be a coming out. There's never just a gender-nonconforming person who exists on a TV show without some screaming on-the-street moment.

I'm sober now, but I was partying a lot. Part of it was because gay bars felt like safe spaces... a place where you feel safe and comfortable in your own skin.

It was exciting to play a gay person in high school who's really proud of himself and isn't dealing with the sort of typical story line - the coming-out story - but is already out and sort of an advocate in his own way.

In the beginning, editorial always inspired my beauty looks, but we're living in a primarily digital age, and Instagram is a great source - as is Pinterest - to find brilliant ideas that spark new ideas in me and the talented makeup artists I work with.

To work with a brand like ASOS that reaches such a young audience and to spread the message of GLAAD is exciting.

Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.

Pride is a time to celebrate our community, publicly display our love for one another, and continue our protest of equality that stems back to the BlackCat and Stonewall Riots.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

I do think some older people in the gay community could be better influencers for gay youth, better educators. I made it a point to be that person.

I'm a cleaner, a put-er away-er, an organizer of things.

I'm a people pleaser, and I want to help everyone who DM's me, so I make sure to promote organizations that fans can reach out to if they're struggling.

I decided that I was going to stop trying to convince older, more established heads of studios or networks to understand me and get me, and focus more on developing relationships with people who already do.

When I wear makeup, it's never intense; I don't do drag. My style has always been naturalistic and then a pop of color for the eye.