Jessica Origliasso Quotes

Without gay men, I am nothing.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

I love drag queens and they love me.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

I'm always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from 'The New Normal,' young gay people - when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

I have huge fans. Gays love me.

I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'

When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I will never turn my back on them.

I love being around gay people, going to gay clubs.

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.

Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!

I have no problem with the Pride parade.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.

I have so many gay friends that I love.

I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.