“He is perhaps the most empowered gay teen in the history of television. He’s gay, and he doesn’t care.”

“You name me a big female star who’s not a gay icon. Every major female performer I know is aware that they have gay followings and how sensitive they are. I just think gay people have better taste.”

“I was not happy about it [when Barbara Walters asked me on ‘The View’ if I’m a lesbian]. My father, who’s 80-something, and my mother were in the front row of the audience. When I got backstage, Barbara Walters came up to me and said, ‘You know, I have to ask you about this.’ And I said, ‘Why do you have to ask me about this?’ ‘Well, it’s news.’ I was like, ‘It’s news?’ … My dad was in the front row going like this [gesturing]: ‘What did they say? Are you a what?’ I just thought about Barbara: ‘You didn’t have to ask me that question. That was tabloid-y of you.’ I felt really used. So now I don’t really like looking at Barbara Walters.”

“I went out with a guy for about two and a half weeks before he said to me, ‘I’m a female-to-male transsexual.’ And I remember our first dinner, I had said to him, ‘So, tell me about yourself.’ Now in what part of ‘tell me about yourself’ do you not think, ‘I should probably tell him I don’t have a penis’? Now had I been a woman – like a bisexual woman – that would have been, ‘Oh my God, I’ve struck the jackpot!’”