Peter Paige

“It's a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that's the way it is going to be.”

“We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You're not seeing your life accurately reflected.”

“When we went to school, we had the odd tornado drill.”

“I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.”

“There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'”

“Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they're all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them.”