Olly Alexander Quotes

As much as I think that in the future we won't need labels, at the moment they're really important. So I'm making myself embrace that. I truly am proud to be queer. Even watching 'Queer Eye' is something that inspired me to say that. So that's the power of representation.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

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

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

My whole life is queer.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.

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.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

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.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

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

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

I'm always happy to support the gay community.

I just didn't like the word 'gay.' I still don't like it. It's a dumb way of describing sexuality. I like 'queer' or other words, but 'gay' is a word that had a completely different-meaning word and has been reappropriated. I just don't like it.

Gay men in a very real way created my career.