Bowie Quote by Lance Loud

“Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.”

— Pete Townshend

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to…

— Boy George

I have seen a lot of gay-themed films that didn't really express how I see being gay at this moment in the world. There…

— Andrew Haigh

It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

— Matt Bomer

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

— Manila Luzon

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions…

— Larry Kramer

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

— Julian Clary

In the mid-1980s, there wasn't a representation of gayness on television. Our glitter and our goofiness and our great costumes made in Vegas; the…

— Ivory

There have been some good British gay films.

— Andrew Haigh

There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.

— Jonathan Bailey

“Gay people represent art. Start allowing gay people to be beaten in the street then you allow art to be beaten in the street.…

— Robert Black

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

— John Cameron Mitchell