Lgbt Quotes

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

How dare you make my life a felony.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

I was on Instagram or something and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, "Oh, my god!" I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

Never be bullied into silence.

Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

It's great to be out and proud.

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

Trump's dividing us. Yes, but people were already divided; Trump just expressed that division. And we have to find a way to, within a very heterogeneous party, even though we're the minority, we're a much more diverse party, of course, than the Republicans are. How do we talk about universal programs, have a universal message, and make sure we're talking about recent immigrants and non-immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, LGBT people, as well? To me, that is a serious problem.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.