America Quote by Jonathan Groff

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it…

— Steven Levitan

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

— Andrew Rannells

We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.

— Megan Mullally

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and…

— Tony Kushner

I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with…

— Greg Berlanti

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

— Tony Kushner

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what…

— Vestal McIntyre

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White

I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself,…

— Christopher Rice

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

— Andrew Haigh