Quotes About Community

As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person.

There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing 'Youngers' in Peckham, people were cautious about what we were filming.

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't always portrayed in that way.

Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

The connections are very important with the fans, with the journalists, with the people. The Portuguese like to do this - it's a characteristic.

We, Portuguese, make this country very big.

Getting to shake hands, pose for pictures, sign books, and interact with people who listen to our radio shows is a blast.

'Pose' feels like a family. I love them all. It's just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I have friends who are in the posh category and some who are in the not-at-all-posh category, and some who you would find it very hard to get any sort of handle on. But I am lucky to have any friends, of course.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position.

If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.

The only changes that we can make as people is changes in leadership. But as a people, it's very, very difficult once those people get into those positions for us to make any changes.

Rwanda was the best place. The people are so nice and positive about their future.