What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.
I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.
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 don't know if I'm a gay icon or not, but with 'A Taste of Honey,' the audience were so touched by the whole story that it certainly helped matters. The characters were so sympathetic that it was as if you had met them.
He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally.
I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.
John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.
All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.
Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.
