Locke: "You don’t always need to be an outwardly extra-confident person to be confident in who you are, and believe in staying true to your morals."

Locke: "I have been openly gay since I was, like, 12."

Locke: "There’s a big push in our world at the moment to take away young queer people’s autonomy. It’s beautiful to be part of a show that really pushes and loves that young queer people can be in charge of their own fates."

Locke: "I think coming out is stupid, that it’s still a thing that people have to do."

Locke: "I had just told my mum, and I was on top of the world. I quickly realized I was ready to tell my mum but I was not ready to tell the world. So I quickly deleted it and said my Instagram had been hacked. I went back in the closet for three years. I retold all my friends and they’re like, 'Yeah, you told us two years ago.'"

Locke: "12-year-old me would be very proud, and terrified."

Locke: "Difference is seen as a bad thing in a lot of schools and to other teenagers because you don’t fit in with a certain norm that’s seen to be acceptable. I know from my own experience that that makes some things a bit difficult."

Locke: "I think we’re on the tail end of the generation before, which wasn’t necessarily as accepting."

Locke: "This happiness is not out of your reach. You don’t not deserve the things in a classic heterosexual love story because you happen to be queer."