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Ben Hopkins Quotes

British - Director | 1969 -

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.

Power Alone Me Brand You Look

When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.

Power Fringe Gather Groups

Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.

Truth People You Stop Never Things

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

Night Crowd Radical Queer Most Our

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

Perspective Leather Dressing Punk Up

PWR BTTM fans dress up better than we do.

Dress Better Up Fans Than

Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.

Space Saying Thank You You Creating

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

Me Political Enjoy Act Things Drag

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

Space People Thought Say Open Up

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

People Grow You Dare Boring Knowing

It's our responsibility to cater to the needs of people who come and enjoy our work who have the same values we do. We're not trying to change the world. We're just sort of trying to deal with our specific lens of performance.

Work Change Responsibility People

I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don't push anyone or affect anyone's space.

Space Push Say Want Affect Our

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