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" I think about a young person who is sitting at home, 13 or 14, a person of color, possibly questioning their sexuality, and watching Dr. Hugh Culber and saying, 'I'm a part of an ideal future that we could work towards.' We're planting seeds in the minds of young people to say, 'Your possibilities are limitless.' "

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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. "

Wilson Cruz

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" I've always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like 'Moonstruck,' 'Ghost,' 'Love and Basketball,' and 'Love, Jones,' replacing the lovers in my imagination with two men. "

" 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. "

" When I was first starting out in the industry in the early '90s, gay love stories were relegated to limited-release films that were hidden deep in the back of Blockbuster video stores. "

" 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. "

Wilson Cruz

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" My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study. "

" Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps. "

" I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award. "

" What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character. "

Wilson Cruz

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" When people ask me for advice about when to come out, it's really about, before you do that, building a circle of support that can strengthen you through that experience. For me, it was my friends. There were people on 'My So-Called Life' that really helped guide me. "

" When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death. "

" I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me. "

" It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life. "

" I think people come home, and they turn on the TV and don't necessarily want a mirror in their face. They want to escape. "

" I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird. "

" I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world. "

" When I came out, it didn't go well. My dad kicked me out. I ended up sleeping in my car. "

Wilson Cruz

Car

" I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa! "

" When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd. "

Wilson Cruz

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" Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to. "

Wilson Cruz

People

Think

" The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV. "

" 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. "

Wilson Cruz

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" All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that. "

" ADCOLOR is an incredible organization that not only empowers people from all backgrounds to rise up but also to give back. "

" When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York. "

" You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation. "

" President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward. "

" I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94. "

" It's important to take leaps of faith. "

" 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? "