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.
Brené Brown - Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.
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.
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.
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.
Sylvia Rivera - I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!
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
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.
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.
Oscar Wilde - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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.
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.
James Baldwin - Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir - It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.
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.
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.
Rita Mae Brown - The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.
Elliot Page - We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.
Boethieus - Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Jasmine Guy - There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
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
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.
Andreja Pejic - All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.
Cassandra Duffy - The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.
Frank Ocean - I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman; but between love and love.
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.
Hillary Clinton - Gay rights are human rights.
Judith Light - You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people.
Evan Wolfson - Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
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.
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