Catherine Opie Quotes

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

My whole life is queer.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I don't feel closeted.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

I'm always happy to support the gay community.

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.

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

In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.

Bisexuals are gay people - we're all gay. Some people don't like that.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.