Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender.

I actually don't label myself, but... Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I'm happy with all of it 'cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

I always knew that I liked guys. I just thought it was a normal thing to like guys but then also appreciate girls' attention too.

I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.

There's straight people, and there's super gay people, and then there's everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.

The people want to know is Walter straight, homosexual, metrosexual, bisexual - I don't care. Here I am, I am who I am, that's it.

I don't think teenagers in 2017 identify with heterosexuality, and that's a positive.

I'm not a lesbian and I'm not straight.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

I wouldn't ever give myself the label bisexual, but bi-curious, yeah.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.