Queer Expression Quotes

A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like, 'Oh this person understands the nuances of the romantic narrative of a queer person, or the social narrative of a queer person.' And then you discover, lo and behold that they are a queer person.

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent 'the other' - and I want pop music, and other queer artists - Kehlani, Perfume Genius - these people are bringing queer narratives into people's minds.

I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

I hope 'Hellcat' is picked up again in years to come by people who realize just how queer it is: not just in its characters but its sensibility.

I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.