Todd Haynes Quotes

Lesbians have never been more popular.

'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new concept, people couldn't pick up on it, but I think it was down to the dynamic characters and how well done it was.

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians.

Me, I'm a lesbian: I find women fascinating.

Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.

I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

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.

Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.