Quotes About Community

They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I'm one of the few queens left from the '70s and the '80s.

Not only does the title 'We're Here' highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.

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.

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of these things.

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

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.

The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.

I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.

I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a teacher.

A lot of my queer development as a kid came from trawling the Internet.

My queer black women peers are the ones who make me not feel crazy. The way we act is so instinctive.

My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality.

Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.

I grew up in a town of 30,000 people, and 'Queer Eye' was a beacon of light.

I think the original 'Queer Eye' definitely started us on the journey to normalize the LGBT community and make people realize that we are just people just like everyone else. It started the road to acceptance.