Gay Quote by Karamo Brown

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through…

— Marlon Riggs

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're…

— Antoni Porowski

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for Southern black…

— Karamo Brown

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing…

— Wangechi Mutu

The perspective that I come from when I sing, when I perform, is of who I am as a black gay man.

— MNEK

I talk about being a 'what' to people. Like, being gay in mainstream society is a different kind of 'what' than being black. They…

— Justin Simien

“Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with the suffering…

— bell hooks

I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity!

— Eugene Lee Yang

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it…

— Margaret Cho

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to…

— Justin Tranter

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to…

— John Logan