Bill Kaulitz Quotes

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 don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

I'm a gay man of colour.

I've been so blessed to work with all my favorite artists as a gay man.

I make pop music. I make music that is pretty commercial. But, at the same time, I'm a minority within a minority and it can be challenging. I feel validated about what I'm doing when I meet fellow black gay men or black gay women.

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

I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.

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.

Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

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

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

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

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.

If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

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

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

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

Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.