“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.” CharacterReaderGayAssumptionIrrelevant Author:Carol Anshaw
“The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.” PeopleIfsMenIdeasCertainCoursesFashionIndustryGayAssumptionProvenFashion Industry Author:Tim Gunn
“White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.” PeopleMenFeelsProblemYoungWhiteWalksColorFitGayWeightPressureBoxesAssumptionJust BeingLive Your LifeWhite ManBeing A WomanExhaustingGay PeopleJust LiveJust Live Your Life Author:Justin Simien
“There will always be people that will have assumptions about you, about my character, my personality, or that I might put on a show of being gay or something, or that I play up stereotypes or anything like that. It's always funny to me that those people are typically the people that know me the least.” PeopleKnowsPlayCharacterShowsMightPersonalityGayAssumptionKnow MeStereotypeBeing Gay Author:Tyler Oakley
“I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'” ThinkingKnowsFeelsDifferentMotherFatherParentOur LivesGayNormalAssumptionAlcoholicsOur FatherAbnormalGay Parents Author:Amy Richards
“When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.” KidsGayOddAssumptionDefault Author:Dan Savage
“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.” PeopleBelieveEndsProblemGayBunchLabelsAssumptionCyclesVeganStereotypeViciousGay PeopleGeneralizationCabbageVicious Cycles Author:Ellen DeGeneres