About Quote by Bryan Batt

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until…

— Bryan Batt

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis

I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I…

— Brandi Carlile

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

— Martin McDonagh

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find…

— Mika

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

— Stephen Karam

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who…

— Harvey Milk

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

— Ryan Murphy

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums

I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.

— Luis Negron