Karan Johar Quotes

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.

The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.

Sometimes you have to see the thing to know that it exists. Maybe there's a queer person in a town, but they don't feel comfortable or safe coming out, frankly, and the only representation they feel that they have or connection they have is on television or in a movie, and that's really powerful.

A lot of the LGBTQ community accepted 'Tangerine,' which was something we worked really hard to achieve.

Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.

I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'

I have put gay dating on the map.

I remember when I heard 'Jessie's Girl' for the first time, I was like, 'This is so applicable to lesbians!'

I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general.

I've never been to a Pride parade.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.

San Francisco is a beacon of hope for LGBTQ people around the world.

San Francisco is a place that stands up for our LGBTQ communities.

It's so important to have a brand as big as UGG celebrating young LGBTQ-plus people and giving them a safe space to feel worthy and loved.

I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.

It's movies like 'Love, Simon' that are so pivotal because it's this sweet rom-com that you would watch about a straight couple, but it's two guys. It feels natural and real and just charming. I would love to see more movies like that.

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.