Quotes About Community

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

I'm the mess of drag queens.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.

I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

I moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country, but I had so many different kinds of Americans push me along and encourage me. I was very odd. I didn't talk very well. We were poor, and we didn't have any connections, but people showed up and pushed me along.

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it's the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it's super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

I went to high school in Rockville Center on Long Island. It's this small, soccer-loving town that my parents moved to, from Queens, before my brother and I were born.

There's no union for drag queens.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

In the gay community there are not very many Jewish drag queens. I've always found that funny because there are a lot of Jewish gay people out there, so why aren't there more Jewish drag queens?

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

Where I come from, camp was kind of looked down upon because the drag queens that I grew up with took themselves so seriously.

A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don't think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.