"The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges."

-- Rudy Galindo

#Gay Quotes #Media Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!”
“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”
“Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!”
“Never take a person away from the music they love.”
“I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”
“The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.”
“Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.”
“Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

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