Gay Quote by Roger Ross Williams

Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even…

— Stephen McCauley

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

— Roger Ross Williams

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who comes from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

— Rebecca Pidgeon

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

I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can…

— Shemar Moore

I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against…

— Ishmael Reed

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler

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

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay…

— Jordan Gavaris