Benjamin Alire Sáenz - There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
Melissa Etheridge - Love is never wrong.
Harvey Fierstein - Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Orson Welles - We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Ronan Farrow - LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what
Jimmy Carter - We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way to become president of the United States.
Kamala Harris - We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to th
Dalai Lama - Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
George Takei - We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
Bayard Rustin - We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
Cassandra Duffy - The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.
Tyler Oakley - This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.
Daniel Radcliffe - You don´t have to be gay to be a supporter – you just have to be a human.
Larry Kramer - Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as su
Megan Rapinoe - The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all inter
Judith Light - You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.
Hillary Clinton - Gay rights are human rights.
Andreja Pejic - All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.
Jasmine Guy - There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Gloria Steinem - Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
Barbara Gittings - Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
Boethieus - Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Frank Ocean - I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman; but between love and love.
Evan Wolfson - Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
John Lennon - It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.
James Baldwin - Everybody’s journey is individual. You don’t know with whom you’re going to fall in love. … If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans co
Lady Gaga - We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
Amber Liu - Gay, straight, bi, whatever – it doesn’t matter. Love is love.
Rumer Willis - Love doesn’t care how much money you have. It doesn’t care who your parents are. It doesn’t care if you’re gay, straight, or transgender.
Tennessee Williams - What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
James Baldwin - Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Audre Lorde - My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Chris Colfer - There is nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.
Rachel Maddow - The single best thing about coming out of the close is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.
Stan Lee - I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.
Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
Stephen Fry - Gays are not interested in making other people gay…But homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.
Sir Ian McKellen - Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.
Tammy Baldwin - There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.
Ernest J. Gaines - Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.
Janet Mock - I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.
Anderson Cooper - I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.
Harvey Fierstein - Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life. Define yourself.
Zanele Muholi - If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
Audre Lorde - We are powerful because we have survived.
Harvey Milk - Hope will never be silent.
Barack Obama - When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.
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