FREE Pride Month Quote Templates

Sylvia Rivera - We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - I am proud that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.

Dorothy Parker - Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.

River Phoenix - It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Howard Dean - From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Marsha P. Johnson - Darling, I want my gay rights now.

Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

Portia de Rossi - I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

Laverne Cox - When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.

Oscar Wilde - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Alaric Hutchinson - Your judgements about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.

Chaz Bono - I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

Elliot Page - We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.

Harvey Fierstein - Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Chaz Bono - Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Jill Soloway - Now we know that queer and trans people are magic. So many kinds of magic and so many kinds of normal.

E.E. Cummings - It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Laverne Cox - It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

Miley Cyrus - What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.

Rachel Maddow - The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.

Anthony Venn Brown - The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.

Emma Watson - It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.

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.

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

Bayard Rustin - We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

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.

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.

Dalai Lama - Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - There are worst things in life than kissing boys.

Melissa Etheridge - Love is never wrong.

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

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.

Zachary Quinto - Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.

Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Troy Perry - The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I’m gay.

James Baldwin - Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Cassandra Duffy - The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.

Judith Light - You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.

Tyler Oakley - This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.

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

Daniel Radcliffe - You don´t have to be gay to be a supporter – you just have to be a human.

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.

Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

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.

Stan Lee - I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

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.

Audre Lorde - My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.

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.