Quotes About Acceptance

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

There's no union for drag queens.

What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind of career.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even in the gay world.

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

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.

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

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.

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.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

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

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

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

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.

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