“... the Darling fortune is made from a chain of dry cleaning stores, and we’re just cleaning up!” 

- Candy Darling

"The token "gay" character is always so funny, and so fantastic." 
- Ezra Miller

"You can only do so much theater." 

- Victor Garber

"I would take the life-and-times approach, and tell the whole story of the gay movement..."

- Randy Shilts 

"I told you to sell it, not give it away." 

- Jerome Robbins

"Being in the closet is way too much energy and deceit--both for the individual, and the people who must lie for them." 

- Charlie David

"From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there is not much "gay" about being homosexual. For the first twenty years of my life, I had to live in the shadows, in a culture that was--at least outwardly--totally hostile to any hint of that variation of lifestyle...Gradually, the general attitude that I'd perceived around be began to change, and presently I find that there has emerged a distinctly healthy acceptance of different social styles of living." 

- James Randi 

"I don't consider myself as a female impersonator. I like to be more androgynous. It's an extravaganza." 

- Nina Flowers

"It's a motherfuckin walk-off!" 

- Daniel Vosovic 

"I work in an industry with some of the meanest people who have ever walked the face of the earth...But the way I see it, I have a responsibility to do the most I can do, the way I know how." 

- Kevyn Aucoin 

"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking." 

- Derek Jarman

"As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years, I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off of our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us, and the rest of the world too." 

- Barbara Gittings 

"The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was I was growing up there were no role models that were "blokey", that were severely masculine. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember thinking, 'that's not me, so even though I think I'm gay, I don't think I fit into this world'. I'm glad to know I do, now." 

- Russell Tovey

"All of my fears, everything that I was scared of...[coming out] was the complete opposite." 

- J. P. Calderon 

"In this society, if a man is called a woman that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less? To me, it doesn't really matter, I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity--I identify as what I am." 

- Andreja Pejic 

"The journey I'm on right now...I just recently came out. I'm starting to live my life as a full female. This is my life." 

- Kristin Beck

"If political candidates do not support testing for HIV or AIDS, don't vote for them. If political candidates do not support the use of condoms, don't vote for them."

- Zackie Achmat

"I was the first unmarried woman to climb in New Zealand, and in consequence I received all the hard knocks until one day when I awoke more or less famous in the mountaineering world, after which I could and did do exactly as seemed to me best."

- Freda du Faur

"I was told women's clothes always make a wire-act more impressive...and I was asked if I would mind dressing up as a girl. I didn't, and that's how it began."

- Barbette

"I'm bi--so fucking what?" 

- Corin Tucker

"I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs." 

- Anne Lister