Olly Alexander Quotes

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting.

I'm not only in touch with my feminine side, I'm in touch with my gay side as well.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

My lyrics are about same-sex relationships, because that's who I am. It was important to me that I felt comfortable expressing myself.

Drag will always find a way to be weird.