Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

Most of the pop videos I've seen that have any male/female interaction are usually centered around a romance - and that's great, I am all for romance. But let's face it, there are a lot of other sexualities and identities that are well-deserving of some shiny pop video love.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.

Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

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.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

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 is not a choice.