Lena Waithe Quotes

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

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

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers are like, 'These guys are so boring! They don't represent me!' But no show can represent everything, so is it OK for us, in 'Looking,' to write about these three men and their world?

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

The fact that I get to play a queer Filipino on television and another queer character in 'Crazy Rich Asians' is huge. I never thought I'd have a career being myself. I always thought that being an actor in Hollywood meant that I would have to put that side of me on the back burner.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.

I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.

We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

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.

When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.

I don't know if I'm a gay icon or not, but with 'A Taste of Honey,' the audience were so touched by the whole story that it certainly helped matters. The characters were so sympathetic that it was as if you had met them.

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

I hope 'Hellcat' is picked up again in years to come by people who realize just how queer it is: not just in its characters but its sensibility.