Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

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

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'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

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

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.

Not everybody is either gay or straight.

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

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

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

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'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

I am not gay, I just like pearls.

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.'

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

She looks like she could be a dyke if she wanted to be.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.