Frank Ocean - I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman; but between love and love.
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.
Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
Anderson Cooper - I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.
Evan Wolfson - Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
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.
Stephen Fry - Gays are not interested in making other people gay…But homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.
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.
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.
Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
Zanele Muholi - If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
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
Audre Lorde - My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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 - We are powerful because we have survived.
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
Chris Colfer - There is nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.
Ernest J. Gaines - Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Harvey Milk - Hope will never be silent.
Lady Gaga - We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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.
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.
Barack Obama - When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.
Amber Liu - Gay, straight, bi, whatever – it doesn’t matter. Love is love.
Stan Lee - I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.
Janet Mock - I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.
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