Wilson Cruz Quotes

United States, Actor
December 27, 1973

Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life, Angel in the Broadway tour production of Rent and the recurring characters Junito on Noah's Arc and Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery. As an openly gay man of Puerto Rican ancestry, he has served as an advocate for gay youth, especially gay youth of color.

Also known as Producer, Educator

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

Wilson Cruz
- Media
- Changed
- LGBT
I learned so much about love from the movies. For a couple of hours, I would allow myself to dream about love and a life that, for me, ordinarily, felt out of reach. So, it was with deep gratitude that I watched the drama 'Call Me by Your Name,' knowing what a beautiful teacher it would be for boys like me.

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- Life
- Love
- Beautiful

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.

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- Community
- Seeds
- Planted
The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

Wilson Cruz
- Picture
- LGBTQ
- Diversify
I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.

Wilson Cruz
- Art
- Activism
- Actorvist
When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.

Wilson Cruz
It's important to take leaps of faith.

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- Important
- Faith
- Leaps
It's important that we continue to uplift and strengthen our LGBTQ youth who are the future of our community and remind them that their voices are heard.

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- Future
- Community
- Youth

Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps.

Wilson Cruz
- Progress
- Steps
- Leaps
The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.

Wilson Cruz
- School
- Felt
- Worthy