Jonathan Groff Quotes

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

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 believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

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

I'm a gay man of colour.

Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.

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

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.

I was born into the most amazing family an underdog could be born into, and I was born into the LGBTQ community. And what a beautiful community we are. The art, the music, the fashion, the brains, the fight, the survival skills, the diversity, male, female, non-binary, Gender Non Conforming, cis, trans, femme, and all races.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

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

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.