Courtney Act Quotes

Courtney Act

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : February 18, 1982

I am attracted to people irrespective of their gender.

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The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to be myself.

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There's something problematic with this idea that straight men can be 'turned', and the binary of gay and straight and the lack of knowledge of the Kinsey scale.

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I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.

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I think that gay men in particular need to just listen to bisexual people and believe them when they say they're attracted to different genders.

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I was always made to feel that men were desirable because of their masculinity, and for a boy, being feminine was not something you should be proud of. But, I came to realise it's OK for boys to be feminine, for girls to be masculine and we should all express ourselves however we want.

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Courtney wants to make the statement that superficial beauty is manufactured and that any woman, or in this case, any man can be beautiful with the right tools.

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It's so easy to be polarised and yell from different sides of the room about certain subjects, but I think it's so much better to walk into the middle and have a conversation to drive change forward.

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Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in women's clothes is wrong, or odd. Women dressing in women's clothes and men dressing in men's clothes is the actually the thing that is really odd.

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The thing about gay male pop stars is: they aren't supported by gay men. Gay men don't really support them until they've gone beyond the gay community and had success in the mainstream, so it's really challenging.

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For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of being a man and what that meant - not just what clothes I wore, but how I acted.

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'The Bi Life' will show many stories. I think that people will find some of those stereotypes, maybe some people are greedy, maybe some people are using bisexual as a transition, but not all of them are.

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My style of drag has always been a little bit more moderate.

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It's important to acknowledge bisexual, pansexual.

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I genuinely had always thought, this sounds dumb, I always thought that 'RuPaul's Drag Race' was shot in the basement of RuPaul's house.

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On New Year's Eve, 2000, my friends and I were going to a party in Melbourne and I decided to do it in drag. It was the happiest night of my life.

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People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we're seeing that our gender roles don't have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.

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I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. I believe that once I die, that's it.

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I had post-traumatic stress from 'Drag Race' a little bit.

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Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion.

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