“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.” PeopleThinkingMenFirstsIdeasYoungBlackAudienceGayProportionGay PeopleDemographicsX MenMutantsChimesOddities Author:Ian Mckellen
“I'm very proud of my team, and the way they stood behind me - and I'm very happy to show my female fans in that audience, and even my gay fans in that audience.” WayShowsBehindsAudienceTeamFansProudGayFemaleVery Happy Author:Nicki Minaj
“I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.” IfsKnowsNeedsShowsAudienceGayCoreNuts Author:Courtney Love
“Gays are the best, though - we just did Gay Pride in Long Beach and in Tampa. And they're the best audience. They're so enthusiastic. They come dressed up - it's really fun. They're crazy and I love them. They're sweet as can be. Even my macho husband, he has a great time, too. He's so cool, he doesn't care. He loves them.” LongCareFunAudienceCrazySweetPrideGayHusbandBeachEnthusiasticGreat TimesDressed UpMachoGay PrideHe Doesn't CareLong BeachTampa Author:Pat Benatar
“I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.” IfsTodayAudienceGayPerformersSupportive Author:Kiesza
“Movie stars exaggerate certain things to let the audience know they're just playing a character, as if they're saying, "Look at me, I'm not really an old man, I'm just playing one." Or "I'm not really a homosexual, I'm just playing a gay character. Or an alcoholic. Or somebody who's mentally impaired." They often do it very successfully and win awards for it.” IfsKnowsMenLooksCharacterCertainWinningStarsAudienceGayOld ManAwardsHomosexualLook At MeMovie StarAlcoholics Author:Curtis Hanson
“I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in.” PeopleWritingKindNightGuyCommunityAudienceFashionFitGayAcceptedWhole LifeMy Best Friend Author:Allie X
“I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'” PeopleGivingShowsNamesAudienceGroupsGayPetitions Author:Jo Brand