Top 100 Quotes About Lgbt
#1. I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.
John Amaechi
#2. This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
Kavita Ramdas
#3. The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.
Tom Limoncelli
#4. I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey
#5. There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.
Reza Aslan
#6. I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,
Johnny Weir
#7. I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
Amber Heard
#9. I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.
Kit Williamson
#10. All across my home state, throughout the South, and around the country, LGBT people and their families are seeking basic respect and dignity. This victory is an essential step on the journey toward full equality for all.
Chad Griffin
#11. Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
Hillary Clinton
#12. I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
Ashley Wagner
#13. I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay ... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.
Carl DeMaio
#14. 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
#15. My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.
Janet Mock
#16. I was on Instagram or something and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, "Oh, my god!" I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#17. I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.
Mark Takano
#18. I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
Boy George
#19. In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
Malorie Blackman
#20. Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
Cindy McCain
#21. Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.
Corey Hart
#22. We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
Lynn Schusterman
#23. LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.
Mallory Ortberg
#24. Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.
Wanda Sykes
#25. By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'
George Takei
#26. I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.
Chuck Hagel
#27. 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 that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala Harris
#28. As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh
#29. Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
Janet Mock
#30. What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly "are" but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.
Ani DiFranco
#31. I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
Lana Parrilla
#32. Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
Christine Pelosi
#33. Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.
Masha Gessen
#34. 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
#35. That's one reason why today meeting in bars or in the neighborhood is far less common among LGBT couples than it used to be, and why nearly 70 percent of LGBT couples meet online. (BLT couples - bacon, lettuce, and tomato couples - are inanimate objects and are not engaging in romantic pursuits.)
Aziz Ansari
#36. As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
George Takei
#37. I probably do the most for the gay and lesbian community, or LGBT, but I don't have one that I focus on. I just try and kind of do a lot for different charities.
Chelsea Handler
#38. I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world.
Ellen Page
#39. I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
Chaz Bono
#40. Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.
Margaret Cho
#41. I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.
George Takei
#42. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.
James H. Cone
#43. Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
Gloria Steinem
#44. We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.
Luis Gutierrez
#45. I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.
Mark Takano
#46. While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In fact, those who are appalled by the treatment of LGBT Russian citizens will lose an incredible opportunity for the world to show their disgust.
David Mixner
#47. I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.
Glenn Greenwald
#48. The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform,
Urvashi Vaid
#49. It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.
Christina Engela
#50. From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.
Tim Gunn
#51. I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it's cute.
Lauren Jauregui
#52. In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.
Ellen Page
#53. There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.
Hillary Clinton
#54. I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.
Anthony Foxx
#55. We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.
Hillary Clinton
#56. I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift.
Demi Lovato
#57. Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.
Chad Griffin
#58. 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
#59. To LGBT men and women worldwide, let me say this: wherever you live and whatever the circumstances of your life, whether you are connected to a network of support or feel isolated and vulnerable, please know that you are not alone.
Hillary Clinton
#60. I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.
Sara Ramirez
#61. If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.
Eddie Izzard
#62. 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
#63. I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.
Tyler Oakley
#64. I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.
Lea Salonga
#65. I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.
Bernie Sanders
#66. LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. I support it personally, and as a matter of policy and law.
Hillary Clinton
#67. Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.
Hillary Clinton
#68. It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
Christine Quinn
#69. Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#70. Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,
Anthony Romero
#71. One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
Jeremy Heimans
#72. There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me.
Naya Rivera
#73. If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time the deception happens.
Kathy Baldock
#74. There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.
Jessie Burton
#75. Madness. That's what it was. And I could no longer contain it.
Melanie Harlow
#76. I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.
Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?
Abigail Roux
#77. It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.
Hillary Clinton
#78. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.
Poppy Z. Brite
#79. I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.
Kenneth Logan
#80. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are
Thomas Beatie
#81. She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa's name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I'm with her.
Kenneth Logan
#82. With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.
Kathleen Patel
#84. I'm not society's version of beautiful
But you're mine.
R.J. Seeley
#85. Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.
Jessie Burton
#86. Our glass train, on fragile tracks
Beneath bombs that fall like the flood
To wash away the shards
- But all this sorrow will recede
And we will leave
Two by two
And until then, I will only think of you.
Danny M. Cohen
#87. I kissed him softly and left my lips pressed to his for a few beats of my heart.
N.R. Walker
#88. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Madeline Miller
#89. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
Patricia Highsmith
#90. I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.
Julie Buxbaum
#91. All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.
Hillary Clinton
#93. If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.
C.J. Reid
#94. Syldor was not a land of oppressive rules, roles, and labels. Here, love and power were open to, for, and between all; woman or man, rich or poor. What mattered was the sharpness of your mind, the speed of your blade, and the heat of your touch.
Natalia Marx
#96. His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.
N.R. Walker
#97. They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes' ... We need change now. We demand actions now.
Lady Gaga
#98. You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.
Andrew Holleran
#99. The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.
Cassandra Duffy
#100. If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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