I am an ‘other.’ As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of ‘otherness,’ I’ve spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as ‘Texas of the North.’ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don’t really know why. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
At 16 years old, I was signed to my very first modeling agency. That was my first real introduction to the entertainment industry. It really opened my eyes to a world that was available to me. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
At 21 years old, I found myself in Vancouver, and that’s where I got the part for my first movie. I was sitting in a restaurant, and the director came up to me and asked me to read for his film. I really took it with a grain of salt. It was the creepiest casting situation, probably. It turned out that it wasn’t. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
A couple of my favorite podcasts are ‘Still Processing’ from ‘The New York Times,’ Oprah’s ‘Super Soul Conversations,’ RuPaul’s ‘What’s the Tee?’ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
It’s so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
It’s important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there’s not much representation for them in the mainstream. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Read Quote
