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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. -- Laura Innes
Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren. -- Kyan Douglas
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. -- Jai Rodriguez
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time. -- Aidan Gillen
No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area. -- Ted Allen
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever. -- Ariel Pink
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. -- Ted Allen
When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of 'Project Runway' was in postproduction. -- Andy Cohen
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. -- Rita Mae Brown
I am not here to entertain straight people. -- Sarah Schulman
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. -- Allen Ginsberg
Do you prefer him or her? Either one's cool-I'm genderfluid. -- Mvxx. Amillivn
The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. -- Chantal Zabus
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to. -- Tony Kushner
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. -- Dorothy Dix
It was paper, as he had once joked to Amos, that he was really queer for. -- James Purdy
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. -- Robert Owen
I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration. -- Michael Bronski
You can stop waiting, you know,' she says. 'For what?' 'For God to strike you down. -- J.C. Lillis
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer. -- Ezra Miller
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. -- Tony Kushner
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. -- Judith Butler
Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders. -- Michelle Tea
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting. -- Paul Monette
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. -- Alison Bechdel
You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer -- L. Frank Baum
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. -- Carrie Snow
The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous. -- Eileen Myles
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. -- Virginia Woolf
We're queer, but music doesn't have a sexuality. Even if it was more clearly written to women, I still think that music is still just music. -- Sara Quin
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. -- Herman Melville
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. -- John Galsworthy
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. -- Leslie Fiedler
What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession. -- Andre Gide
When your head is about to explode, you shouldn't dare call in a psychiatrist because you're about bringing new ideas to world that will later label you a freak. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. -- Louisa May Alcott
When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder -- Arthur Conan Doyle
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. -- Joyce Cary
They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover. -- David Rovics
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. -- Anne Frank
Part of me wants to make this boy bruise, bleed, and sob, and part of me wants to soothe him and care for him. The tipically complex yearnings of the kinkily queer. -- Jeff Mann
Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit. -- Guy Vanderhaeghe
One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that. -- Linda Villarosa
When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield -- Kate Bornstein
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate. -- Ian Harvie
Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't. -- Erwin Schrodinger
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. -- Carlo Collodi
Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world. -- Eli Clare
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book. -- Michelle Tea
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids. -- Dan Savage
You could cut...all that out.""You mean the men. Perhaps I could. I'm quite sure I could. But you see, Joe, I don't want to. What you call unnatural is the very essence of my nature. -- Mel Bossa
Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both. -- Ann Bannon
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. -- D. H. Lawrence
I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging. -- Maggie Nelson
As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately upon setting foot in the dorms. -- Valentine Glass
Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from. -- Beth Ditto
How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join? -- Trebor Healey
Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22)(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?) -- Duvert Summers
We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith -- Kate Bornstein
That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically. -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! -- Anne Sullivan
There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass. -- Iain Banks
To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother. - Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre -- Pedro Almodovar
I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow wordlessly generating volumes of desire like some kind of sublanguage that makes you want to splash into it even with all its tensions. -- David Wojnarowicz
The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge... -- Radclyffe Hall
If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new -- Adam Snowflake
I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity. -- Kate Bornstein
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. -- Derek Jarman
Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs. -- Johnny Weir
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. -- Ira Sachs
I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it. -- Andrea Speed
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. -- George R. R. Martin
History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. -- Janet Flanner
The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. -- Alysia Abbott
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. -- Dan Savage
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. -- Samuel E. Morison
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption. -- Jasmine Guy
Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original] -- Chuck Palahniuk
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer. -- James Newman
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. -- P. G. Wodehouse

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