Quotes About Queer

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

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.

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.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

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

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.

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

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.

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

I know that it's my queer perspective that's helping people make songs that the world is listening to.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an accent or fez on a set '70s show. It's always like, 'Ha, ha, funny emasculated immigrants.'

Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.