Importance Quote by Sasha Velour

It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.

— Christopher Wylie

“One of the problems in mainstreaming queer characters is that people think in order to get a character accepted, they have to be totally…

— Anonymous

“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience…

— Chuck Palahniuk

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be…

— David Tennant

The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer…

— Courtney Act

“That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of…

— Eve Sedgwick

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

— Casey Wilson

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

— Kit Williamson

A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.

— Shannon Purser

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

— Dan Levy

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

— Cheyenne Jackson

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not…

— Nico Santos