American - Actor | December 27, 1973 -
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.
Wilson Cruz
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.
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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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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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