Queer Quotes

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

— Del Shores

My whole life is queer.

— Christine and the Queens

If queer people are nothing, we are strong.

— Bob the Drag Queen

“I am a black woman, A black queer woman.”

— Carlo Kui

“A queer, little thing called friendship.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“Queer Ducks flock together.”

— Gail Carson Levine

I am not insane, I'm just queer.

— Albert Fish

You are actually queer

— Riley Jonasen

“It's a queer business, making oneself blind.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

“If you don't want to be a gawker, you've gotta join the circus.”

— Patrick Califa

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

— Jonathan Van Ness

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

— Karamo Brown

“Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own disasters.”

— Don DeLillo

“Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.”

— Agatha Christie

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I…

— Andrew Rannells

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

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I certainly think sometimes when it comes to sexism, some Sky presenters need to look at themselves.

— Emily Thornberry

“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it…

— MNEK

At first, I didn't even realize how low on the totem pole I am. First of all, I'm a woman. Second of…

— Victoria Monet

In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in…

— Gene Roddenberry

I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world.

— Ezra Furman

“So, you identify as queer, yeah?” Christopher confirmed, and I nodded. “This might be silly,” he said. “Or maybe not cool to…

— Roan Parrish

“It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her…

— John Dufresne

“Queer people have had to actively make their culture and community and institutions, because the non-queer world is not going to do…

— Sarah Liss

Especially when you're queer and you're a person of color, you're so used to being the token on set. Inevitably you have…

— Nico Santos

“[Queer theory is] the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which like other unwed mothers has…

— Dennis Altman

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Where 'Boy Meets Girl' succeeds so brilliantly is it does make people think about something different and it doesn't make being transgender…

— Rebecca Root

“Alas, Tis true that words are queer And yet my son, you need not fear. For in this volume can be seen…

— Amor Towles

“I guess I think of it as what we called each other in college when we didn't want to use gay to…

— Austin Chant

“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know…

— Michelle Tea

“You smear shit on something—on someone else and what they do—and he’s going to learn those things are bad. You won’t be…

— Rhys Ford

“We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit…

— Sachin Kundalkar

“It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never…

— Joseph Conrad

“And I know when you’re a teenager everybody feels different and alien to the other people around them but there seems to…

— Sean Kennedy

“...there are lesbian sex parties that happen in the city and how they will often have No Bio-Cock Policies, meaning, No Trans…

— Imogen Binnie

“If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will…

— Leah Raeder