Quotes by Wilson Cruz - Page 1

It's important to take leaps of faith.
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Faith
Leaps
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I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.
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Christmas
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I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.
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Honored
Receiving
Award
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The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.
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Marriage Equality
Mtv
Seeds
Planted
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It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life.
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Life Person Who
Star Trek
Trek
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Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps.
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Progress
Steps
Leaps
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You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation.
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Glee
Impact
Generation
Overstate
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I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.
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Exaggeration
Hyperbole
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When I came out, it didn't go well. My dad kicked me out. I ended up sleeping in my car.
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Car Dad Me
Ended
Sleeping
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I remember watching the premiere of the pilot episode of 'Next Gen' when I was a teenager.
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Teenager
Episode
Gen
Pilot
Premiere
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When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York.
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Appetite
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When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.
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Drawn
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I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape.
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Escape
Mirror
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ADCOLOR is an incredible organization that not only empowers people from all backgrounds to rise up but also to give back.
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Backgrounds
Organization
Rise
Empowers
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It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.
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Notebook
Corny
Change World See
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For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.
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Decades
Images
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All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.
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Broadway
Star Trek
Trek
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My dad is now an incredibly important ally of mine. I'm so impressed with him. He's a hero to me because he put love and his family first.
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Impressed
Love Family Dad
Ally
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I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams.
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Pursue
Your Dreams
To Survive
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As a fan of the franchise, I count myself among the countless LGBTQ fans who have longed to see themselves and our relationships depicted on 'Star Trek.'
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Among
Star
Count
Depicted
Franchise
Relationships
Star Trek
Trek
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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.
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Our Community
Remind
Strengthen
Uplift
Voices
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The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.
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Worthy
Where Me Long
Me Long School
Belong
Excelled
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I'm aware that I'm playing one of the first LGBT characters on 'Star Trek' in the first relationship, so there's a responsibility that comes with that. I'm aware of that.
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Star Trek
Trek
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The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.
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Work Done People
All Races
Diversify
Races
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I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.
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Activism
Inform
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When I was first starting out in the industry in the early '90s, gay love stories were relegated to limited-release films that were hidden deep in the back of Blockbuster video stores.
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Blockbuster
Stores
Hidden
Love Stories
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I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.
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Diverse
Seeds
Bear
Include
Planted
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I've always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like 'Moonstruck,' 'Ghost,' 'Love and Basketball,' and 'Love, Jones,' replacing the lovers in my imagination with two men.
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Ghost
Moonstruck
Devour
Drawn
Love Stories
Replacing
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'Call Me by Your Name' does not have a political agenda. It is not a 'cause' film. It is a simple and beautifully shot story about a same-sex relationship that exists in a very tiny Italian village.
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Italian
Tiny
Village
Beautifully
Exists
Political Agenda
Same-Sex
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Adam Lambert's continued success as one of the world's best-selling pop stars shows LGBT people that they can be themselves and make it in a mainstream industry that many feel unfairly rejects them.
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Adam
Mainstream
Pop Stars
Rejects
Unfairly
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I was 19, 20. I didn't know what to do. I knew one thing: I never saw myself on TV or anyone like me, and I wanted to be that for someone else. I think the most courageous thing I did was ask for help.
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Courageous
Myself Me Never
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I like to bring a level of vulnerability and real humanity to the characters I play when appropriate, and I feel like Dr. Culber lives pretty comfortably in that vulnerable world, but he's a professional first.
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Appropriate
Vulnerability
Comfortably
Dr
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It's 'Star Trek!' It's as close to an American mythology as we get. To be a part of that storytelling after being a fan since I was a teenage boy who saw the pilot episode of 'Next Generation' air, it's all very surreal.
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Mythology
Next Generation
Surreal
Teenage
Episode
Pilot
Star Trek
Trek
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I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird.
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Applause
No Idea
Deserved
React
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Steve Warren's work and career have opened doors for out professionals across the entertainment industry. In addition to advocating for LGBT people, he has continuously mobilized a large base of high-profile allies to help bring about social change.
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Advocating
Allies
Doors
Entertainment Industry
High Profile
Social Change
Change Work People
Addition
Continuously
Opened
Professionals
Steve
Warren
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I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me.
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Bathroom
Brushing
Calling
Teeth
Testing
Ceiling
Mirror
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When I think about people coming out, especially young people, my first concern is, 'Are you safe? Is this a safe time? Are you in a safe place?' Do you have a network of people outside of your parents you can go to if this doesn't go as well as you hoped?
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Concern
Time Your People
Hoped
Safe Place
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What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character.
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Disheartening
Invisible
Comedies
Expense
Largely
Studio Films
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It's one thing to be sitting in a classroom and have a teacher tell you how to treat other people; it's a whole other thing to watch, week after week, somebody's life spelled out to you in an emotional way: That lesson is something that will stay with you forever.
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Classroom
Lesson
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When people ask me for advice about when to come out, it's really about, before you do that, building a circle of support that can strengthen you through that experience. For me, it was my friends. There were people on 'My So-Called Life' that really helped guide me.
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Advice
Life Experience Me
Circle
Guide
Helped
So-Called
Strengthen
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When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.
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Concern
Hinder
Most Important Thing
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When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.
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Rainbow
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I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!
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Activism
Conversation
Fortunate
Grateful
Vice Versa
Love Art Amazing
Inform
Passions
Serve
Versa
Vice
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I learned so much about love from the movies. For a couple of hours, I would allow myself to dream about love and a life that, for me, ordinarily, felt out of reach. So, it was with deep gratitude that I watched the drama 'Call Me by Your Name,' knowing what a beautiful teacher it would be for boys like me.
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Gratitude
Life Love Teacher
Ordinarily
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I think about a young person who is sitting at home, 13 or 14, a person of color, possibly questioning their sexuality, and watching Dr. Hugh Culber and saying, 'I'm a part of an ideal future that we could work towards.' We're planting seeds in the minds of young people to say, 'Your possibilities are limitless.'
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Color
Limitless
Questioning
Seeds
Sexuality
Sitting
Future Work Home
Dr
Towards
Hugh
Work Future Home
Ideal
Minds
Planting
Possibilities
Young People
Young Person
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My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.
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Advice
Human Condition
Humans
Study
Condition
In The End
Inform
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If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of color experience. And you definitely wouldn't have a young LGBT person or their story told. The experience of being invisible in our culture has ramifications that I don't think any of us can really understand.
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Invisible
Ramifications
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When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd.
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Beverly Hills
Dynasty
Hills
Odd
Teenager
Beverly
Fantasies
Freaks
Reflective
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President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward.
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Allies
Defense
Landscape
March
President Clinton
Recognition
Unconstitutional
Favor
So-Called
Struck
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