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" 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. "

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" I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams. "

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

" If you were to turn on the TV in 1986, '87, you wouldn't see anybody having, I guess, a low-to-middle-income person of color experience. And you definitely wouldn't have a young LGBT person or their story told. The experience of being invisible in our culture has ramifications that I don't think any of us can really understand. "

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" 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? "

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