Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

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

If you're writing a bi character, did you look at a lot of bi actors for the role? Did you really go and find people that identified as queer? If you did, then great, and if you didn't find anyone you liked in that pool, well, that's surprising. If you write a character that's trans, the time is now - cast a trans actor.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

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!

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

I'm very happy to be part of a generation where you don't have to say that you're gay. It's just like, 'I'm dating a dude,' or, 'I'm dating a girl,' and I love it. I think it's a great time.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

We need more gay in the world! I really believe that.

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

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

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

People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.

I am a gay American.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.