3.
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.
Lance Loud
4.
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton
5.
There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.
Keanu Reeves
6.
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain
7.
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
Leslie Feinberg
8.
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.
Alycia Debnam Carey
9.
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.
Cyndi Lauper
12.
I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.
Brittney Griner
13.
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
14.
I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.
Matt Groening
15.
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.
Quentin Crisp
16.
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.
Hillary Clinton
17.
It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.
Lady Gaga
19.
While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.
Hillary Clinton
20.
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.
Amanda Bearse
21.
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.
Rashida Jones
22.
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!
Hannah Hart
23.
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.
Christopher Hitchens
24.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
Tennessee Williams
25.
LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.
Mallory Ortberg
26.
When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.
Hillary Clinton
27.
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.
Sara Quin
29.
Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.
Jennifer Nettles
30.
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
Sigmund Freud
31.
NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!
Katy Perry
32.
Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.
Ken Mehlman
33.
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.
Hillary Clinton
35.
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
Merle Miller
36.
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.
Michael Kazin
37.
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
Jean Cocteau
38.
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
Urvashi Vaid
39.
Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.
Hillary Clinton
41.
Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.
Hillary Clinton
42.
In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.
Ellen Page
43.
I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
Reese Witherspoon
44.
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.
Jonathan Knight
45.
I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.
Chuck Hagel
47.
There was this very strange moment when the world discovered what was going on for LGBT people in Russia. It was very gratifying: I thought, there is a world out there, a saner world. It had felt sort of desperate and bizarre until that point.
Masha Gessen
48.
They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.
Lady Gaga
50.
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.
Hillary Clinton