Quotes About Lgbtqia

#1. It's okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it's scary, but don't be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don't want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.

Connor Franta

#2. Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

DaShanne Stokes

#3. Love should never mean having to live in fear.

DaShanne Stokes

#4. She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.

Rachel Spangler

#5. Back to reality, after a brief but pleasant dream.

Jo Victor

#6. Cam was staring into her coffee, cradling the mug in both hands. A working woman's hands, sporting a few scrapes and scratches. Strong, capable hands.

Jo Victor

#7. This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.

Tyler Oakley

#8. Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here.

Suzette Mayr

#9. I know I wasn't the person you needed me to be before, but I can be if you'll let me.

Rachel Spangler

#10. Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from Todo Sobre Mi Madre

Pedro Almodovar

#11. If you can get with the freaks, then we want you here.

Sarah Liss

#12. Because of you, Michael, my heart begins to grow wings.

C. Kennedy

#13. 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

#14. You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation.

Annie Proulx

#15. I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I'd like to think it's the future.

Missouri Vaun

#16. Perhaps one of these days she'd surprise herself and not actually do the thing that was right and proper and best for all concerned. And probably give herself heart failure from the shock.

Jo Victor

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

Allen Ginsberg

#18. I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

C. Kennedy

#19. All bisexuality means is that someone COULD date anyone, not that they WILL. This stigma needs to end.

Kira Hawke

#20. I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn't distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?

Abigail Tarttelin

#21. Baseball was a safe bet. Baseball also didn't have a girlfriend. Then again, baseball didn't have big brown eyes or show a little hint of cleavage under its uniforms. Decisions, decisions.

Rachel Spangler

#22. I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.

Kim Van Alkemade

#23. You really are a dumbass.

Stjepan Sejic

#24. I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!

Stjepan Sejic

#25. Bonkers is female . . . Did she know that?

Stjepan Sejic

#26. Close your eyes. Let a smile as big bright and bold as a disco chorus blaze across your face. Fall in love with the universe and everything in it. See yourself for one moment as the subject of every love song ever written. And as she drifts to sleep beside you, start a brand new song.

J.C. Lillis

#27. The power of love is that it sees all people

DaShanne Stokes

#28. If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you're living. Go discover it.

C. Kennedy

#29. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#30. That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her.

Jo Victor

#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. Cam knew that if she succeeded, it was going to destroy her, but she could worry about that later. All she had to do at the moment was cut her own heart out without letting the wound show too much; she'd have plenty of time to bleed after Alex had gone.

Jo Victor

#33. I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

Suzette Mayr

#34. I reckon they'd taste of stars.

Alexis Hall

#35. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?

Martha Brockenbrough

#36. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#37. No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.

Tyler Oakley

#38. He was tired
of being called
a fag and teased
for his sexuality
by one of the guards,
so he tried to hang
himself, twice

The kid got a little
closer the second
time, but I won't be
around to see a
third

Phil Volatile

#39. Fuck you! I pierced my nipples for her!

Stjepan Sejic

#40. Needing and getting don't always go together.

Rachel Spangler

#41. Because most people have great difficulty recognizing the humanity of another person if they can't recognize that person's gender, the gender-changing person can evoke in others a primordial fear of monstrosity, or loss of humanness.

Susan Stryker

#42. America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

Sarah Mullen

Erin Passons

#43. It is strange ... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.

C. Kennedy

#44. I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.

John Corey Whaley

#45. Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

C. Kennedy