Oscar Wilde - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Amandla Stenberg - Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.
James Baldwin - Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Truman Capote - But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir - It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.
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.
Melissa Etheridge - Love is never wrong.
Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
Bob Paris - Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Troy Perry - The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I’m gay.
Morgan Freeman - I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an a**hole.
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
Bayard Rustin - We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
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
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.
Judith Light - You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.
Hillary Clinton - Gay rights are human rights.
Jasmine Guy - There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Andreja Pejic - All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.
Gloria Steinem - Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
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.
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.
Frank Ocean - I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman; but between love and love.
Boethieus - Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Evan Wolfson - Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
Gore Vidal - We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important
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.
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.
James Baldwin - Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Amber Liu - Gay, straight, bi, whatever – it doesn’t matter. Love is love.
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.
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.
Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
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.
Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
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.
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