Community Quote by Natasha Rothwell

A lot of queer stories revolve around tragedy.

— Camille Perri

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

— Claire Danes

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

— Jonathan Bailey

My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably…

— Becky Albertalli

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

I just think there's so many great LGBTQ stories and more that can be told and I want to be a part of that.

— Shangela

The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always a story…

— Asia Kate Dillon

What I loved about playing Ms. Albright in 'Love, Simon' is that, so often, when we speak of allies in the queer community, we…

— Natasha Rothwell

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

— Becky Albertalli

'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher…

— Becky Albertalli

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive…

— Wilson Cruz