Quotes About Acceptance

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

Those fans who abuse people of a different colour or gays just do not think at all.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.

I am a geek, and proud of it.

I was such a geek in school.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.

Geeks are finally having their day.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

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

I just think, you know what, some of the most astute fans I know are film geeks, film lovers, and watchers, and I am now proud to be one of them. So I am, hopefully, going to be accepted into the club of geek!

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.

I don't see gender when I look at the world.

It shouldn't matter what gender you are but that's where we are right now and it's a battle.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.