Queer Quotes · Page 5

I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.

— Olly Alexander

“I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.”

— Andrea Speed

Every TV show is gays. They're kissing each other. It's out of hand.

— Boosie

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

— Robert Owen

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

— Allen Ginsberg

“If queerness can be defined, then it is no longer queer.”

— Madhavi Menon

“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

“You know, when a beautiful bleeding woman shows up at your door, it's common courtesy to let her in or help her…

— Allison Ivy

“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I feel like we need to create more roles that give LGBTQ people the opportunity to be on screen.

— Josie Totah

“The forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what…

— Sara Ahmed

“Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the…

— Aldous Huxley

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired,…

— Jeremy Clarkson

'Looking' was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It's a gay-themed show, so you're not going to get…

— Andrew Haigh

I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much…

— Ariel Pink

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even…

— Michelle Tea

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay…

— Lionel Shriver

“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There…

— Erwin Schrödinger

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms…

— Derek Jarman

“A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal…

— Monique Wittig

“I've had more difficulty accepting myself as bisexual than I ever did accepting that I was a lesbian. It felt traitorous. A…

— Anonymous

“Love is always a cybernetics of addiction. Ending up with an addiction to someone, for someone, making someone the object of the…

— Paul B. Preciado

“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my…

— David Wojnarowicz

“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And…

— Edmund White

“They were waiting for a bus when Oliver said to Lee, 'Being gay is like being invisible. No one ever tells you…

— Kyle Labe

“dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world.…

— Diane DiMassa

“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

“In the provinces, being queer is worse than being Arab.”

— Laurent Binet

“Harper: You, the one part of the real world I wasn't allergic to.”

— Tony Kushner

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

— Laura Innes

Bro, where'd you get that outfit? Build a queer..?

— Kyle Sirak

We need folks who are queer or trans, to have an opportunity to tell their story.

— Manila Luzon

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

— Kevin Abstract

Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.

— Karamo Brown