Quotes About Representation

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

I have put gay dating on the map.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

In a lot of the Regency stuff we've seen in the past, we see a very composed woman. There's not much sexuality there. It's very much the male gaze.

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their own content, if no one else will do it for them.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.

For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.

I've never done gender politics - I think our vote is too important to give away on any single issue.

I want racial and gender equality.

If there is a woman filmmaker or a woman artist, the issue of gender is floating very close to their work... It almost naturally comes into their work. If one looks at all the male artists, the issue is never there.

There is no 'generic' Latina.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?