00:00I hope that young queer people of all colors can look at me and know
00:11that they can.
00:30I hope that young queer people of all colors can look at me and know that they can.
01:00I was told that who I am was never going to work. I was told that who and what I am would never be successful. Period. That's what I was told. I did not believe them.
01:13Theatre was the thing that encouraged me to dream beyond my circumstance, outside of my circumstance.
01:43I'm just very grateful and very happy to be here. It's a childhood dream of mine.
01:56I was a gay teenager with nothing and nobody to turn to. There were people in my life, the Trevor Project didn't exist, but there were people in my life, angels in my life, who really stepped in and saved me. It's about giving back.
02:26The T in LGBTQ was largely absent from my consciousness for a really long time.
02:54Being on this show has changed me in ways that I didn't even know I needed to be changed.
03:14I think what disturbed people was that I was actually a man choosing to wear a dress in a serious way. For real. There was no joke to it. That made people uncomfortable. Good.
03:44Women's rights are very important to me. Everybody's rights are very important to me. None of us are free until we're all free.
04:14I feel like...
04:42I feel like visibility and representation are the only things that create change. It's when we are visible that we have the power to create empathy through the way we tell stories.
