Community Quote by Annie Lennox

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who…

— Rostam Batmanglij

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

— Olly Alexander

I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.

— Kiesza

I think that's the place ideally we'd like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the music for…

— King Princess

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.

— Annaleigh Ashford

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to…

— John Cameron Mitchell

My literal existence as a queer Black woman is a major contribution to the hip-hop genre.

— Doechii

Regarding gay and music, I don't actually think my music is particularly gay at all, because my music doesn't have sex with men. My…

— Owen Pallett

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

— Big Freedia

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that…

— Peter Bart

The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something…

— Liv Bruce

Being gay is just a small fraction of who I am, not what defines me.

— Anonymous