Courtney Act Quotes

Courtney Act

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : February 18, 1982

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.

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Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.

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I know what it's like to be in unrequited love.

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'Fight For Love' is a dancefloor banger all about coming together and fighting for the things we believe in.

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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.

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The U.K.'s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

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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.

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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.

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I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.

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Different people are attracted to me depending on how I look. I have a very broad spectrum of attraction.

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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.

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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.

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Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

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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.

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I love being Courtney, but it almost feels like something different to drag for me - it's a part of me, it's not a parody, it's a form of expression for me, a way to give my feminine and masculine sides an outlet.

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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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The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.

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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.

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I remember my first Mardi Gras. It was in the year 2001. I decided earlier that day that I was going to go in drag. It was my third time in drag.

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I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.

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