Lgbt Quotes - Page 4

• Being LGBT is not a choice. It's not about "a sexual proclivity." It's not a "lifestyle," as you put it. It's about our identity. Pride is a time when we come together to celebrate our community and when others do, too. Just as we do for other racial, ethnic, and religious groups that are part of the "tossed salad" nature of our society.

  Steven Petrow

  Religious, Pride, Choices

  "Civilities: We'll be talking about your reactions to the Orlando massacre for the full hour". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 21, 2016.

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• If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe, before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Gay, People

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.

  Jamie Raskin

  Gay, Oath Of Office, Hands

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• 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

  Pride, Gay, Bisexual

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• 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

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Country, Needs, Demand

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• So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.

  Chaz Bono

  Men, Issues, Identity

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• It's great to be out and proud.

  Greg Louganis

  Gay, Proud

  Greg Louganis, Eric Marcus (2006). “Breaking the Surface”, p.274, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• There are still so many risks to coming out in a conservative society, and I don't think suggesting one way of doing things will work for everybody. I do believe, however, that you can only be happy if you are true to yourself. So taking that first step - of coming out to yourself - that's something I hope every young LGBT person can feel safe doing.

  Ivan Heng

  Believe, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

  Sara Quin

  Rights, World, Solidarity

  "Tegan And Sara Pose For NOH8 Campaign, Vow To Remain Unwed Until All Can Marry" by Glennisha Morgan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Gay, Relax, Wanted

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• The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Love You, Gay

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• You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Cheer, Gay, Iraq

  Remarks by the President at DNC Event in San Jose, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 26, 2011.

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• I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kissing, Simple, Erotic

  "Steven Spielberg Admits That He Softened Lesbian Sex In 'The Color Purple'" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.

  Kabir Bedi

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, Gaps, Discrimination

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Gay, Rights, Today

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

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• The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Movement, Institutions, Has Beens

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• 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

  School, Kids, Eye

  "Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

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• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  Dan Savage

  Inspirational, Gay, People

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• Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community, Mind

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

  David Brooks

  Gay, Two, People

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• There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, Two, Giving

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