Wilson Cruz Quotes

I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

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'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 very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

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

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

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

I've had so many parents ask me, 'So when should you talk about what it means to be gay or LGBTQ with a child?' I don't think there's any age that's too young.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

When people see 'bisexual,' they still confuse it with promiscuity, which is so wrong. So I was so pumped to be the first bisexual on Riverdale and just normalize that for viewers.

When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.

There should be more LGBT people on TV.

I'm a gay man of colour.

I've written songs about women since I've been involved with women, but I do know a few gay female artists who, back in the day, would write songs about men.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.