Lgbt Quotes
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"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."
"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."
"What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?"
"I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing"
"Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
"Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart."
"I put my hand next to his shoulder on the door frame, not touching, but real close. “Look, Blondie. I’m not asking you to bottom, just to fucking navigate."
"For the first time I had the best of both worlds--a mission to live for and a man to love."
"My latest battle had nothing to do with The Company, the rebels, or any other faction. It was out-and-out warfare between my head and my heart. Keeping it cool during daylight, versus nighttime, when I unleashed my passion for him. ... Turned out the Wilderness was a lot more hostile than me."
"Shock? More like shellshock at this point. Blondie knew I was gay, yet he was a Company Exec or else he wouldn’t be here. I was his butt boy in the worst possible way.When I squinted at him, he gave nothing up. Neither did I. I had shit on this newly minted man too.Double fucking jeopardy, jackass."
"I’m wondering how long I have to deal with this bullshit before I can brief my troops. Oh, and I gotta feed my goldfish. Let’s get this straight, Blondie—”“Blondie?”“That’s an insult, not a pet name."
"It doesn’t matter where I am, or who I’m with . . . God, Caspar. I’ve dreamed about being with you."
"You’re an assignment, not an assignation. Soon as I get your pretty boy ass through the Wilderness and deliver you to the Outpost, you’re no more than a stain to spit-shine off my boots."
"Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need o have another talk about your people skills.""Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble."Will turned to me. "I apologize for my boyfriend."Nico rolled his eyes. "Could you not―""Would you prefer special guy?" Will asked. "Or significant other?""Significant annoyance, in your case," Nico grumbled"
"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."
"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."
"They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls."
"But in the midst of this decaying, burning city, there are pockets of hope. It can be found in the tiny dark rooms in underground bars, where women with short hair cheer on men in dresses. It can be felt in abandoned cinemas where anonymous strangers fall in love if only for a few moments, and in the living rooms where families crowd around, drinking sweet black tea and Skyping their homesick relatives so that together they can watch the long, rambling talk shows that go on all night."
"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."
"They think I make God angry. I hate that they think this. I hate them for thinking it. Why would you decide to worship an angry God anyway?"
"If it makes God so freaking mad, why does it feel so good?"
"If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith."
"If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through."
"When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth."
"Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage."
"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
"Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law."
"Love should never mean having to live in fear."
"Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood."
"I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while."
"I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic."
"Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves."
"In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant."
Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
"The power of love is that it sees all people."
"The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?"
"People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most."
"What does love mean if we would deny it to others?"
"My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you could be using your energy for good? We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes."
"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."
"Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom."
"This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?"What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?"
"If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms."
"I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it."
"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all."
"Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others married because they could see no other viable choice in the day."
"For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love."
"Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does."
"If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas."
"Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out."
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