Lgbtq Culture Quotes

When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

Lesbians have never been more popular.

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I loved Anthony Bourdain, but I really did want to see one about LGBTQ communities and culture and the specific country that we visit. Of course it is about the joys and the triumphs and the nightlife, but sadly, unfortunately, it's also about the discrimination that people face, because that's the reality.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

She wasn't only gay, she was a gay elf.

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

I had about five years as a gay guy in New York after college before the whole Grindr explosion happened, where people were still going out to meet each other.

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world.

I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.