Confidence Quote by Jane Seville

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

— Derek Jarman

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

— Ezra Furman

“Going out in tights and wigs and drag, it takes a whole lot of courage...And those gays, they're just being themselves. And I think…

— Kyle Labe

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

— Dan Savage

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

— Olly Alexander

“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with…

— Iain M. Banks

“If your organization is not formally committed to a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression or gender presentation…

— Kimberly D. Acquaviva

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman…

— Torrey Peters

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

— Dan Levy

“Everyone knew that girls who admitted to liking girls stopped being whatever they were before and became a cross between a lumberjack and a…

— Robyn Ochs

“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating…

— Agatha Christie

“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from…

— Ashton Morgan

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

— Liv Bruce

Queer? Is this queer? These queer? What's up? What's up?

— Joe Dirt