Top 100 Quotes About Lgbtq
#1. When I heard what the "B" in LGBTQ stood for, my first feeling was the settling of pieces into order.
Megan Erickson
#2. As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
Donald Trump
#3. I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.
Jill Stein
#4. If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
Hal Sparks
#5. Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however, was remind the gay community once again that they are not looked at as equals, that the God of so many does not love them.
Timothy Kurek
#6. I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.
Kathleen Hanna
#7. The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
Cheyenne Jackson
#8. I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
C. Kennedy
#9. Really, we're just a microcosm of the human condition. Whether we're here a day, a month, a year, fifty years - our time on this earth is finite." This time he turned to Brendan. "Life isn't a dress rehearsal, as they say. This is our chance to discover things we might have only dreamed of before.
Claire Thompson
#11. I kissed him softly and left my lips pressed to his for a few beats of my heart.
N.R. Walker
#12. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Madeline Miller
#13. She said "sweet boy" again, as if making a diagnosis like tooth decay or flat feet. I was embarrassed. I didn't know if I was being insulted or complimented.
Shawn Stewart Ruff
#14. Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?
David Levithan
#15. 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
#16. I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?
Leslie Feinberg
#17. Christy isn't a case, he's a person.
C. Kennedy
#18. Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible.
Cheryl B. Evans
#19. Well, Louie, you'll know then that Leviticus also tells us not to cut our beards, not to wear linen and wool together nor to eat crayfish or frogs or snails. I'm afraid that if we adhered to Leviticus the entire French nation would be an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Paula Boock
#20. What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.
Judith E. Snow
#22. It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.
Bhanggi
Faiqa Mansab
#23. I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.
R. YS Perez
#24. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.
Skye High
#25. We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.
Becky Albertalli
#26. 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
#27. Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.
Cristina Marrero
#28. Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.
Amy Kaufman Burk
#29. Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.
C. Kennedy
#30. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.
Cristina Marrero
#31. 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
#32. The Santa Ana Wind
gusts down
desert canyons.
Hot. Dry. Electric.
Some say
it ignites tempers.
I say
it ignited us.
Kristin Elizabeth Clark
#33. Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked.
Clair Olivia looked me up and down. "No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He's gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!
Bill Konigsberg
#34. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?
Sloane Kennedy
#35. Long after you go down
and the vessel rusts apart
your bones sunken
buried in the ocean floor
I wonder if you miss people?
Kristin Elizabeth Clark
#36. I can always recognize the fellow wounded.
Suzette Mayr
#37. My parents had always been accepting of homosexuals and had supported their fight to be treated as equals, but it was different when it was your own son.
Sloane Kennedy
#38. I'm queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can't hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing? Makes no sense.
Rita Mae Brown
#39. I don't have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.
A.S. King
#40. Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning.
Leah Reader
#41. ... don't ever apologize for being who you are. Be gay and be proud.
Amy Kaufman Burk
#42. There is no difference:
Love is love and love is love.
We are all the same.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#43. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
DaShanne Stokes
#44. Living in a world of darkness doesn't mean we must surrender, but to survive, we need to occasionally unleash the diva from within.
Skye High
#45. We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you.
David Levithan
#46. No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.
Tyler Oakley
#47. It's never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Skye High
#48. The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
Cokie Roberts
#49. It was fine just like that, kissing a boy that you found attractive.
A. Zukowski
#50. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.
Cassandra Clare
#51. And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.
N.R. Walker
#52. See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.
Shawn Stewart Ruff
#55. It is strange ... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.
C. Kennedy
#56. Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before.
David Levithan
#57. Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
DaShanne Stokes
#58. My last thought before falling asleep last night was a realisation that I was falling in love with Andrew.
Well, not me exactly. My stupid, traitorous heart.
N.R. Walker
#59. The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.
Liz Kessler
#60. Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.
C. Kennedy
#61. Queer people have had to actively make their culture and community and institutions, because the non-queer world is not going to do it for us. And I love that, I love the idea that you have to create what you need, you know?
Sarah Liss
#64. Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.
Audre Lorde
#65. Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.
Cristina Marrero
#66. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.
Nora Sakavic
#67. What if this - this rule that says what I did in the back room that day is a terrible sin - what if that's just a rule some old white man made up, too?
Robin Talley
#68. Sometimes the best way we can serve God is by honouring and taking care of that which has already been give to us. This, is my case, is my children.
Cheryl B. Evans
#69. ... You saved me from a life filled with absurd prejudice and morality and allowed me to grow...
Julie Maroh
#70. The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back.
Liz Kessler
#71. Her hair is tucked behind her ears, a few stray strands lazily brushing her cheek. I suddenly have the strongest sensation of wanting to reach out and curl them in place behind her ear.
Liz Kessler
#72. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?
Brie Spangler
#73. This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.
Tyler Oakley
#74. Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.
C. Kennedy
#76. Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here.
Suzette Mayr
#77. There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can't trust anyone, they can't tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.
C. Kennedy
#78. A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own.
Emily Eskowich
#79. I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories with humor and honesty.
Paige Braddock
#80. Conspicuous lesbians abounded - it's hard to miss teenage queers who have yet to figure out subtlety - and, though I can't deny that I like my girls a little rough, most leaned so heavily on the dyke archetype that they looked like a Timberland truck crashed into Lilith Fair.
Valentine Glass
#81. If you can get with the freaks, then we want you here.
Sarah Liss
#82. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.
Joe Biden
#83. I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
Rebecca Ann Parker
#84. Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
Patricia Nell Warren
#85. I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now."
"Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time."
I laughed. "It's true. He is.
N.R. Walker
#86. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.
Claire Thompson
#87. I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.
Cheryl Rainfield
#88. For Emma, her sexuality is something that draws her to others, a social and political thing. For me, it's the most intimate thing there is
Julie Maroh
#89. So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
S. Bear Bergman
#90. Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.
Haruki Murakami
#91. Being who you are is so much more important that fitting in will ever be.
Cheryl B. Evans
#92. Guns' aka Luke Gunner had a record as long as my cock. Believe me, it was impressive." ~Lloyd Ledbetter
Eva LeNoir
#93. Gay, straight, bi - labels, schmabels.
Olley White
#94. Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
#95. We must find you a new boyfriend, Wavey had kept telling her, but what if a girlfriend was what Fever needed? She felt as if she had opened the door to a room she had never noticed in a house where she'd lived all her life.
Philip Reeve
#97. Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.
DaShanne Stokes
#98. For the first time in my life, I said the words, I need a drink.
Cristina Marrero
#99. I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.
Nida
Faiqa Mansab
#100. People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
DaShanne Stokes
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