Queer Quotes · Page 6

So many queer people come out constantly for the rest of their lives, ya know? To the people they work with, to…

— Olly Alexander

“What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I…

— André Gide

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

— Justin Tranter

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say.…

— James Newman

Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one's judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.

— Bob the Drag Queen

“It was queer meeting him there—odd I mean—and what are the odds we’d meet at a gay bar? I was there to…

— Jarod Kintz

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

— Ben Hopkins

“The world does not need a ‘gay Elvis’, for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant…

— Mark Simpson

“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness…

— Christopher Morley

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe…

— Herman Melville

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not…

— Jenna Wortham

For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to…

— Ben Hopkins

“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy… No…

— E.B. White

“It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with…

— Ellen Wittlinger

“I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language. It’s a miserable feeling. I’ve had it all my life.…

— Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that…

— Nico Santos

“What is 'camp'? A much misunderstood word, everyone has their own feel for it. Here is mine: Camp is not in rugby…

— Stephen Fry

“That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and…

— Eve Sedgwick

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

— Anonymous

“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society,…

— Deborah B. Gould

“That feeling about trains, for instance. Of course he had long outgrown the boyish glamour of the steam-engine. Yet there was something…

— Georges Simenon

“Suicide. This is the exact opposite of last time, for this time I'm experiencing a kind of pleasure in life, in being…

— Qiu Miaojin

“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Monique Wittig

Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.

— Sasha Velour

Television has played an important role in normalizing the experiences of gay men and lesbians in America.

— Zoey Tur

“Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the…

— Douglas E. Richards

“Bye bye binary. For gender, for sexuality, for everything. ... Lots of people can like lots of people. And could everyone please…

— Cath Crowley

LGBTQIA inclusion in media, especially TV and film, is not just important, it's essential.

— Tommy Dorfman

Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced…

— Nico Santos

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

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

— Andrew Rannells

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

— Ezra Furman

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

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

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 have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“And he gets why I didn't want us to be that to each other. Most people want puddles to splash around in;…

— Courtney C. Stevens