Top 100 Gay Lesbian Quotes

#1. Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

Billie Jean King

Gay Lesbian Quotes #366620
#2. You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

Judith Light

Gay Lesbian Quotes #402345
#3. Everyone - whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender - should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

Cyndi Lauper

Gay Lesbian Quotes #462397
#4. Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

Zachary Quinto

Gay Lesbian Quotes #557802
#5. I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.

Cate Blanchett

Gay Lesbian Quotes #916416
#6. The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.

Laura Sydell

Gay Lesbian Quotes #973940
#7. If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

Margaret Cho

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1099109
#8. I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren't welcome at the table, then we don't feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Rachel Held Evans

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1295349
#9. I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

Cyndi Lauper

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1420767
#10. SUPPORT SAFE SPACES FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH. Reading

Alex Gino

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1437465
#11. I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that!

Eminem

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1512899
#12. While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.

Christina Engela

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1581137
#13. My mom has always been a big advocate, especially in the gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual community, so for me it's always been a part of my soul.

Josh Hutcherson

Gay Lesbian Quotes #1692499
#14. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

David Boies

Gay Lesbian Quotes #9741
#15. Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.

Bryan Cranston

Gay Lesbian Quotes #12720
#16. My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

Carol Leifer

Gay Lesbian Quotes #15646
#17. So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

Elton John

Gay Lesbian Quotes #19231
#18. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Barney Frank

Gay Lesbian Quotes #21854
#19. Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.

Zach Wahls

Gay Lesbian Quotes #24101
#20. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Larry Kramer

Gay Lesbian Quotes #51173
#21. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

Patricia Highsmith

Gay Lesbian Quotes #57305
#22. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.

Mary Griffith

Gay Lesbian Quotes #72466
#23. There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

Catherine Opie

Gay Lesbian Quotes #74098
#24. For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do.

Chelsea Handler

Gay Lesbian Quotes #77833
#25. Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.

Susan Estrich

Gay Lesbian Quotes #88832
#26. To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

Judith Light

Gay Lesbian Quotes #89469
#27. Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

Gay Lesbian Quotes #90853
#28. [Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

Mary Dugger

Gay Lesbian Quotes #97917
#29. Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

John M. Gottman

Gay Lesbian Quotes #102386
#30. If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?

June Jordan

Gay Lesbian Quotes #112499
#31. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

James Howe

Gay Lesbian Quotes #114644
#32. Christ, they'd be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he'd cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Kate Aaron

Gay Lesbian Quotes #120408
#33. I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

Ruby Rose

Gay Lesbian Quotes #125133
#34. I'm very gay, but I love women. I'm not attracted to men in any way ... But yes I am gay, I'm so happy. I'm a gay, heterosexual male ... I got major love for the gay and lesbian community, and I just want to push less separation.

Lil B

Gay Lesbian Quotes #126839
#35. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

Gay Lesbian Quotes #132366
#36. If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too

Paul Martin

Gay Lesbian Quotes #167007
#37. Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

Coretta Scott King

Gay Lesbian Quotes #177424
#38. I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.

James Alison

Gay Lesbian Quotes #179158
#39. We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

John E. Lewis

Gay Lesbian Quotes #184878
#40. The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

John Sentamu

Gay Lesbian Quotes #201539
#41. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

Monica Raymund

Gay Lesbian Quotes #231498
#42. Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

Gay Lesbian Quotes #254450
#43. Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

Chaz Bono

Gay Lesbian Quotes #256214
#44. When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.

Graham Greene

Gay Lesbian Quotes #277963
#45. I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Audre Lorde

Gay Lesbian Quotes #285204
#46. I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.

Amber Benson

Gay Lesbian Quotes #285250
#47. The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth
but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge ...

Radclyffe Hall

Gay Lesbian Quotes #304217
#48. Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

John Shelby Spong

Gay Lesbian Quotes #347727
#49. If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

Michele Bachmann

Gay Lesbian Quotes #350568
#50. 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.

Rachel Maddow

Gay Lesbian Quotes #351842
#51. I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

Lena Headey

Gay Lesbian Quotes #377903
#52. When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfully) to mate with the male in front of it.

Simon LeVay

Gay Lesbian Quotes #378398
#53. It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.

Thomas Mulcair

Gay Lesbian Quotes #388619
#54. The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage

Gay Lesbian Quotes #403803
#55. There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

Michael Stipe

Gay Lesbian Quotes #422828
#56. But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. - about being gay from the film Love My Life

Ebine Yamaji

Gay Lesbian Quotes #430347
#57. Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

Mel White

Gay Lesbian Quotes #451802
#58. I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

Ann Aguirre

Gay Lesbian Quotes #458507
#59. I'm scared to fall asleep. I don't want to see it...

Rebecca Ybarra

Gay Lesbian Quotes #461759
#60. And many attorneys and judges have come to support legal recognition for same-sex unions because they are already having to deal with the division of assets and similar issues in de facto gay and lesbian divorces.

Stephanie Coontz

Gay Lesbian Quotes #464704
#61. . . . you can read my mind," Parmida realized.
"When it is open to me," Azra admitted apologetically. ". . . I love you too, by the way.

Ash Gray

Gay Lesbian Quotes #466601
#62. Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.

Michele Bachmann

Gay Lesbian Quotes #487796
#63. No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.

Lady Gaga

Gay Lesbian Quotes #512821
#64. Being gay or lesbian is not a choice.

Barack Obama

Gay Lesbian Quotes #527669
#65. As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Al Sharpton

Gay Lesbian Quotes #528896
#66. The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.

Amanda Bearse

Gay Lesbian Quotes #542329
#67. Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

David Cameron

Gay Lesbian Quotes #543033
#68. There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

Gene Robinson

Gay Lesbian Quotes #549719
#69. But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.

Veronica Roth

Gay Lesbian Quotes #552758
#70. Tony knew if he ever needed anything done again, he was calling on the Lesbian Network of Massachusetts. Those girls worked fast. And they were everywhere.

K.A. Mitchell

Gay Lesbian Quotes #561062
#71. I'm so sick of the words 'gay' and 'lesbian'. They're just people ... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, 'I found this guy, and I love him.' And I'm gonna be like, 'Yes, you do, and that's ok.'

Josh Hutcherson

Gay Lesbian Quotes #563309
#72. Chubby chasers don't prove that fat is beautiful. Chubby chasers show us that ugliness is optional.

Dan Oliverio

Gay Lesbian Quotes #564265
#73. It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

George Clooney

Gay Lesbian Quotes #584669
#74. I am not here to entertain straight people.

Sarah Schulman

Gay Lesbian Quotes #586455
#75. ...There are no 'what ifs.' You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you've got or cut her loose.

Michele L. Rivera

Gay Lesbian Quotes #591632
#76. I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

Crystal Bowersox

Gay Lesbian Quotes #618550
#77. I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

Jennifer Nettles

Gay Lesbian Quotes #639071
#78. President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.

David Mixner

Gay Lesbian Quotes #648391
#79. Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

Bayard Rustin

Gay Lesbian Quotes #665118
#80. There are lots of gay and lesbian actors who are very secretive about their sexuality. Things leak out, but you never know for sure. Maybe the nineties will change some of that.

Ellen Hart

Gay Lesbian Quotes #672666
#81. Maybe you can explain to me what is so spectacular about her, because you gay girls can't seem to keep your hands off that daffy redhead.

Cassandra Duffy

Gay Lesbian Quotes #672759
#82. My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; or to lie to everyone, pretend I was straight, and forget about it all.

Justin Lee

Gay Lesbian Quotes #680800
#83. Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

Dean Spade

Gay Lesbian Quotes #699045
#84. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.

Nicolas G. Janovsky

Gay Lesbian Quotes #699536
#85. I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

A. J. McLean

Gay Lesbian Quotes #699942
#86. That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.

Katrina Law

Gay Lesbian Quotes #708168
#87. Living inside me is a straight guy, a lesbian, a gay man, a straight chick, and a couple of bisexuals and they all get an equal amount of play time.

Ily Goyanes

Gay Lesbian Quotes #710144
#88. Gay and lesbian people don't necessarily have that much in common with transsexuals." "Yeah," I said. "Except for the fact that we get beaten up by the same people.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Gay Lesbian Quotes #735240
#89. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

Dan Savage

Gay Lesbian Quotes #740179
#90. I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.

Carlos Ponce

Gay Lesbian Quotes #740706
#91. Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

Stephen Harper

Gay Lesbian Quotes #752975
#92. One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.

David Boies

Gay Lesbian Quotes #775526
#93. My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

Coley Sohn

Gay Lesbian Quotes #807830
#94. I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

David Isay

Gay Lesbian Quotes #845261
#95. I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Gene Robinson

Gay Lesbian Quotes #849154
#96. If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Gay Lesbian Quotes #856373
#97. Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

Earl Blumenauer

Gay Lesbian Quotes #859141
#98. I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.

Dick Cheney

Gay Lesbian Quotes #917388
#99. If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

Laura Schlessinger

Gay Lesbian Quotes #920090
#100. You can't have a vocation of No

Eve Tushnet

Gay Lesbian Quotes #921413

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