Quotes About Lgbt History

#1. Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.

Michael Bronski

#2. Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

Jessie Burton

#3. The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.

Jessie Burton

#4. Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.

Jessie Burton

#5. Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

Jessie Burton

#6. We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.

Jessie Burton

#7. As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

Alija Izetbegovic

#8. You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

Jessie Burton

#9. We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

Frances Hardinge

#10. I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.

Leslie Feinberg

#11. The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians.

Bonnie J. Morris

#12. You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

Allen Ginsberg

#13. Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.

Jessie Burton

#14. That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.

Jessie Burton

#15. I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

Chelsea Cain

#16. The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

Jessie Burton

#17. I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.

Jessie Burton

#18. The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.

Jessie Burton

#19. Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it ... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

David Mixner

#20. I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.

Jessie Burton

#22. I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Rihanna

#23. What was once, is no longer.

Jessie Burton

#24. From little seeds great flowers grow.

Jessie Burton

#25. All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.

Jessie Burton

#26. I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Bill Parcells

#27. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.

Adam Silvera

#28. This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

Jessie Burton

#29. Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed it segregation.

Michael Barakiva

#30. I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

Tim Daly

#31. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.

Jessie Burton

#32. Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.

Jessie Burton

#33. There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.

Jessie Burton