American - Actor | June 20, 1969 -
We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
Peter Paige
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We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You're not seeing your life accurately reflected.
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Gay adults start as gay kids... Now they've got to figure out how to be with each other and be with family, friends, and the communities at school.
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My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.
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I think effeminacy is something that's really important to talk about in the context of gay media representations and in terms of the gay experience at large.
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There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'
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There was one family drama on television when we took out 'The Fosters' - 'Parenthood'. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it.
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We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.
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When we went to school, we had the odd tornado drill.
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Nothing is ever off the table at 'The Fosters' as long as it's based in reality.
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Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they're all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them.
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It's a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that's the way it is going to be.
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