Gay Quote by RuPaul

For years, 'Drag Race' was gay people's best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn't know anything about it. Look at it…

— Trixie Mattel

'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.

— Michelle Visage

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.

— Mary Harron

When 'Drag Race' first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the…

— Jenna Wortham

By the mid-noughties, I found that I was no longer the only openly gay person in every setting. At one point, a couple of…

— Masha Gessen

Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them…

— Sasha Velour

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens…

— Sasha Velour

We can't police the way people express their sexuality.

— Olly Alexander

We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.

— Keren Woodward

I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can be a…

— Ezra Furman

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

— Chelsea Manning

I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag…

— Sasha Velour