Accepted Quote by Madonna Ciccone

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some…

— Judy Davis

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they…

— Alan Cumming

I had examples from a very young age of gay actors or personalities coming out in late '90s and early 2000s who faced a…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I feel like Hollywood likes to use gay people to tell either really sad gay stories starring straight actors, or everything's about a struggle.…

— Tommy Dorfman

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

— Julian Clary

I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in…

— Tommy Dorfman

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

The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different…

— Dean Cain

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that…

— Jill Bennett

I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding…

— Emma Goldman

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