Words matter. These are the best Courtney Act Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to be myself.
Drag has taught me that I have deliberate control over my image, and when this notion is applied to one’s whole life, it is both powerful and transformative.
I just wanted to show young people you can be you and wear what you want.
I was always made to feel that men were desirable because of their masculinity, and for a boy, being feminine was not something you should be proud of. But, I came to realise it’s OK for boys to be feminine, for girls to be masculine and we should all express ourselves however we want.
The U.K.’s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.
After Pride, Christmas is a drag queen’s next best holiday. It’s pretty gay, full of tinsel and glitter and finery and campness.
There is so much frustration in the heterosexual male community manifesting in different ways, whether it be aggression or sexism or racism. I’m not saying all heterosexual men are that way, but you do see a lot of it.
Being trans means different things to different people. Some people don’t take hormones, some people don’t have surgery, some people are just happy living in the clothes of their chosen gender.
People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we’re seeing that our gender roles don’t have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.
A good night’s sleep is a super important part of feeling good.
I am attracted to people irrespective of their gender.
Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in women’s clothes is wrong, or odd. Women dressing in women’s clothes and men dressing in men’s clothes is the actually the thing that is really odd.
I know that the U.K. loves a villain.
It’s so easy to be polarised and yell from different sides of the room about certain subjects, but I think it’s so much better to walk into the middle and have a conversation to drive change forward.
For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of being a man and what that meant – not just what clothes I wore, but how I acted.
The Spice Girls were the life preserver to my high school years.
I think it’s really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.
There are gay people in every community, there are bi people in every community and they can come together with a bit of strength.
You can literally tour all around Australia in two weekends.
Pole dancing is way harder than it looks.
I love New York audiences, because they’re used to going to shows, and you really notice it. They laugh and applaud and do all the things that you want an audience to do.
People care about what I have to say now, and they want to hear it, and that’s one of the greatest gifts you can be given.
I had post-traumatic stress from ‘Drag Race’ a little bit.
For people living with HIV, the knowledge that undetectable equals untransmittable is huge news, not only as a means of preventing transmission, but in breaking down the stigma that many people still experience.
We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that’s problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that’s also problematic.
I think it’s so important to think about the basic human rights of others and to use our collective voices, minds and bodies to lift those people up and bring about change.
There’s something problematic with this idea that straight men can be ‘turned’, and the binary of gay and straight and the lack of knowledge of the Kinsey scale.
I know when there’s lots of stuff racing around in my head it can be hard to sleep and stay asleep. And one of the biggest things that used to keep me awake at night was worrying about my gender and sexuality.
I’ve seen attraction manifest itself in so many fascinating ways. Lots of straight-identifying men have been attracted to me as Courtney.
When it all boils down, being Courtney has forced me to be different to the status quo, which means I have gotten to decide on every choice along the way.
I genuinely had always thought, this sounds dumb, I always thought that ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ was shot in the basement of RuPaul’s house.
I would have hated for my ‘Drag Race’ moment to have come down to lip syncing a Whitney Houston song.
It’s detrimental not to support marriage equality, even just on a financial level.
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn’t fit in a box is ready to break into the mainstream. I want to do my best to put myself in the best position to have that happen for me.
An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple – which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.
Brexit happened. Donald Trump is president. If Ann Widdecombe won CBB Year of the Woman, it would be the third sign of the Apocalypse.
The first time I ever dressed in drag was at a costume party during my childhood. I went as Wonder Woman and my mom even took me to get the costume.
Courtney isn’t just a costume, it’s a way I express my femininity.
Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to the country. We need to have greater compassion and understanding and recognize that our similarities are greater than our differences.
I don’t get too dressy as a boy that often.
We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.
There’s so much visibility for trans people, for gay men and lesbians, but there’s still not a lot for bisexual people.
I’ve learnt I don’t have to be a man and I don’t have to be a woman, I can just be me.
As a drag performer, people have traditionally put us into the category of ‘pervert’ or ‘deviant’ or things like that. So I’ve always been really careful not to be vulgar or grotesque with sexuality.
I know what it’s like to be in unrequited love.
‘The Bi Life’ will show many stories. I think that people will find some of those stereotypes, maybe some people are greedy, maybe some people are using bisexual as a transition, but not all of them are.
I think that ‘Drag Race’ would certainly let a straight guy compete in drag.
I acknowledge that I’m really fortunate to have found pockets of people all through my life who’ve accepted me.
You can’t really necessarily explain what being on a reality show is like until it’s happening to you.
The most vocal fans online are girls, which is interesting. I didn’t expect that.
To hold and know the power of a woman is something so amazing that I don’t think a woman could ever understand because they cannot know life without it.
The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.
Different people are attracted to me depending on how I look. I have a very broad spectrum of attraction.
Yeah, back in 2003, I went to ‘Australian Idol’ the first day as a boy, and I got knocked out. So I went back the next day in drag and made it into the Top 12 and got a record deal and toured around Australia.
The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.
Russia isn’t only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.
Changing genders is not a quick process… it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.
Call me old fashioned, but I love songs that end. As a songwriter, I feel like you put a fade out when you can’t work out how to end a song.
It’s a common misunderstanding, that when a bisexual person is dating someone of the opposite sex that they are now straight, or if they are dating someone of the same sex they are now gay.
Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion.
I am a Madonna fan.
Because bisexual people almost have a foot in the gay and the straight world, their friends can misunderstand them too. Like if a bisexual man starts dating another man, people are like ‘Ah, he’s gay,’ but you know, bisexual people remain bisexual, and their attractions can change and flux over time.
The art of drag is intrinsic to who I am.
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn’t understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.
I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn’t say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone’s house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.
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