Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it because that is who I am.

There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?

It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes.

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.

The industry has always been accepting of gay artists, but a particular thing for me is to see gay artists of color.

I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more mainstream press coverage of our artwork and fashion, and more representation of our interests within politics.

Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white gay people in their culture. That's a kind of privilege people don't know they possess.

I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the stories I want to see onscreen and on the pages.

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.

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many 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.

My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.

The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.

I'm proud that I can represent, within Cyborg, a couple of different groups. One being people of color, but also, Cyborg is a superhero that is in many ways disabled. So, being able to give representation from that end as well is something that's really powerful to me.