Zanele Muholi - If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
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.
Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
Anthony Venn Brown - The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.
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.
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.
Stephen Fry - Gays are not interested in making other people gay…But homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.
James Baldwin - Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Rita Mae Brown - The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.
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.
Sylvia Rivera - I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!
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
Anderson Cooper - I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.
Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
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.
Elliot Page - We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.
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.
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.
Janet Mock - I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.
Stan Lee - I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.
Troy Perry - The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I’m gay.
Christine Jorgensen - Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected.
E.E. Cummings - It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Morgan Freeman - I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an a**hole.
Ellen DeGeneres - I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.
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.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir - It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.
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.
Lena Waithe - To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act. And I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
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.
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.
Ernest J. Gaines - Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Chris Colfer - There is nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.
James Baldwin - Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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.
Brené Brown - Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.
Dalai Lama - Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Melissa Etheridge - Love is never wrong.
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.
Audre Lorde - My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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.
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.
Jill Soloway - Now we know that queer and trans people are magic. So many kinds of magic and so many kinds of normal.
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
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
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