“Desirous of a beautiful life I get out of bed, but it's Monday and I'm in the throes of a genocide.” — Billy-Ray Belcourt Copy Share Image
There were many people like myself who never really imagined that women who identify as queer or lesbian would ever be romantic… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
My main motivation with my whole existence is to be representation for queer, gender fluid, gender diverse, non-binary communities. — G Flip Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to. — Tommy Dorfman Copy Share Image
“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil,… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“D, I have known a lot of men in my time, queer and straight, and I think I can state with some… — Jane Seville Copy Share Image
Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
“They likely would not have been able to be open about it. But the optimist in me likes to believe that the… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family.… — Helen Hull Copy Share Image
“So, you identify as queer, yeah?” Christopher confirmed, and I nodded. “This might be silly,” he said. “Or maybe not cool to… — Roan Parrish Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Alas, Tis true that words are queer And yet my son, you need not fear. For in this volume can be seen… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“One of the problems in mainstreaming queer characters is that people think in order to get a character accepted, they have to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've encountered Knausgaard obsessives who work for the government. In Hollywood. I've met them at a queer separatist compound. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers. — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
“[Queer theory is] the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which like other unwed mothers has… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
“Human feelings are queer things -- I am much happier -- black-leading the stove's -- making the beds and sweeping the floors… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
To cut writers and expect A.I. to understand what it's like to be a plus-sized Black woman from New Jersey living her… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
It's just so crazy how we're still so starved for it and how excited I get when I do an audition for… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
I feel like certainly there are people expecting 'Looking' to be representative of everyone that's gay, the entire gay community. And it's… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I'm an Aussie who loves to play drums and other instruments first and foremost. The fact I want to be a queer… — G Flip Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't until I came out that I was like, 'OK, I'm ready to share my music now' because a… — G Flip Copy Share Image
“When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touched a… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before.… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
“I hate labels, hate pronouns. They're so confining. They like some bird cage, y'know? Or prescription medicine. Some days I feel one… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to see the thing to know that it exists. Maybe there's a queer person in a town, but they… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
“If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising… — Sacha Coward Copy Share Image
“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
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