Lgbt Queer Quotes

#1. It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.

Ellen Wittlinger

#2. 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

#3. Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Paul Monette

#4. I am not here to entertain straight people.

Sarah Schulman

#5. To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider ... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother.
- Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre

Pedro Almodovar

#6. In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but one element of an affectional and educational relationship in which youths learned the ways of manhood

Barry D. Adam

#7. The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.

Eileen Myles

#8. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here ... hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.

Ann Bannon

#10. I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places.

Saleem Haddad

#11. Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.

James Dawson

#12. When straight-identified women have sex with women, the broader culture waits in anticipation for them to return to what is likely their natural, heterosexual state; when straight-identified men have sex with men, the culture waits in anticipation for them to admit that they are gay.

Jane Ward

#13. It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass
or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses
can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond

Carol Queen

#14. The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Dan Savage

#15. It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

Jasmine Guy

#16. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.

Diriye Osman