Billy Eichner Quotes

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

It's important that we continue to uplift and strengthen our LGBTQ youth who are the future of our community and remind them that their voices are heard.

It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.

Growing up, I never had a role model to show me that you can be trans and live a happy life. I hope that I can be that source of hope for someone out there who's struggling.

It's just unbelievable that nearly every gay human being knows who I am now - that's overwhelming.

If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

I mean, so hopefully soon there's enough women and enough people of colour and enough of every group out there that feels that they get the recognition they deserve, and then we don't have to talk about it anymore.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?