Quotes About The Lgbtq Community

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.

Becky Albertalli

#6. I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

Suzette Mayr

#7. 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

#8. Chase your dreams, even if you trip.

Ashley Brooke Robbins

#9. 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

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

Suzette Mayr

#11. 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

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

Sarah Liss

#13. People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

DaShanne Stokes

#14. 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

#15. You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.

Ashley Brooke Robbins