Angelica Ross Quotes

I am a gay American.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

I'm always happy to support the gay community.

Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

I've always had a lot of gay friends; transgender friends.

I like diversity. I'd like there to be all levels of gay and straight, all different variations of gender, all colors, all creeds. I'm into seeing that.

I want to show people out there that there's such a huge spectrum of people within the queer and Asian community.

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.

In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.

You kinda say, 'Well, straight people don't have to come out.' I understand now that's not necessarily the right way to look at it.

I was born black and female.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

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

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Straight people are everywhere!

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

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.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.