I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.

I love being Courtney, but it almost feels like something different to drag for me - it's a part of me, it's not a parody, it's a form of expression for me, a way to give my feminine and masculine sides an outlet.

Drag is more like a license to be what you want. But you don't need drag to do that.

The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.

I think it's really cool that 'Drag Race' has created this space where so many different kinds of people can come together and socialise and have fun on equal terms.

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

On 'Love Island' you're trying to win the prize money and stay together; on 'The Bi Life,' the winner is the one that finds love.

It's easy to make a reality show that's sensational but it's more challenging to make a reality show that's got a lot of heart and integrity and still keeps you enthralled and makes you want to keep watching.

You can't really necessarily explain what being on a reality show is like until it's happening to you.

Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.

I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box is ready to break into the mainstream. I want to do my best to put myself in the best position to have that happen for me.

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.

As a drag performer, people have traditionally put us into the category of 'pervert' or 'deviant' or things like that. So I've always been really careful not to be vulgar or grotesque with sexuality.

I've seen attraction manifest itself in so many fascinating ways. Lots of straight-identifying men have been attracted to me as Courtney.

I've had boyfriends I've dated whom I met as Courtney, but then dated as Shane. Courtney can certainly act as a glamorous stepping stone across the pond.

There are gay people in every community, there are bi people in every community and they can come together with a bit of strength.

The art of drag is intrinsic to who I am.

The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.

To hold and know the power of a woman is something so amazing that I don't think a woman could ever understand because they cannot know life without it.

Drag has taught me that I have deliberate control over my image, and when this notion is applied to one's whole life, it is both powerful and transformative.

An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple - which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

'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.

There's so much visibility for trans people, for gay men and lesbians, but there's still not a lot for bisexual people.

I am attracted to people irrespective of their gender.

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.

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.

I know what it's like to be in unrequited love.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

I just wanted to show young people you can be you and wear what you want.

I know that the U.K. loves a villain.

Different people are attracted to me depending on how I look. I have a very broad spectrum of attraction.

The U.K.'s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

It's important to acknowledge bisexual, pansexual.

We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that's problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that's also problematic.

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.

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

As I get older, I'm more comfortable with the idea of dying.

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

Brexit happened. Donald Trump is president. If Ann Widdecombe won CBB Year of the Woman, it would be the third sign of the Apocalypse.

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to the country. We need to have greater compassion and understanding and recognize that our similarities are greater than our differences.

While dressing up as Courtney is a performance, there is a part of me that is expressing my gender in feminine and masculine ways.

I don't get too dressy as a boy that often.

I love New York audiences, because they're used to going to shows, and you really notice it. They laugh and applaud and do all the things that you want an audience to do.

Yeah, back in 2003, I went to 'Australian Idol' the first day as a boy, and I got knocked out. So I went back the next day in drag and made it into the Top 12 and got a record deal and toured around Australia.

I would have hated for my 'Drag Race' moment to have come down to lip syncing a Whitney Houston song.

I loved being on 'Drag Race' but I say leave well enough alone.

I think it's best if I remain as dysfunctional as I can.

Changing genders is not a quick process... it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.