Becky Albertalli Quotes

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

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not just one or two things. There's so much about the queer community that needs to be represented.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

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

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.

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

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.

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

I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.

Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.

I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.

I knew I was as gay as a goose. Then I ended up in West Hollywood, where the queers hang from the trees. I was home. I had landed.

I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

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.

First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.

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.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I came out around 25 publicly.