Stephanie Beatriz Quotes

After the 'Fallon' set, I had a lot of queer people message me about how much it meant to see a queer perspective on late night TV.

It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always a story of, like, very sad, usually ended up with somebody dying, and it made the idea of being queer or different really scary, actually.

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

I hope 'Hellcat' is picked up again in years to come by people who realize just how queer it is: not just in its characters but its sensibility.

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

I grew up in a time where there were no queer digital references.

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.

I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest.

When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent 'the other' - and I want pop music, and other queer artists - Kehlani, Perfume Genius - these people are bringing queer narratives into people's minds.

A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like, 'Oh this person understands the nuances of the romantic narrative of a queer person, or the social narrative of a queer person.' And then you discover, lo and behold that they are a queer person.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

When 'Drag Race' first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the show has evolved to reflect America's changing relationship to queer rights and acceptance.

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.