Lgbtq Quotes

“I don't like labels. But if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.”

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

“I am now a very, very out lesbian.”

“The play was my way of processing my own experience of coming out, but also telling the stories of a whole generation of gay men. It was terrifying and liberating at the same time.”

“It's a great time to be a lesbian.”

“My whole life has been about being an out gay person.”

“I’m a big, butch, bad-ass dyke. I’m not a vegan; I’m a carnivore.”

“I think being a butch lesbian is a political act.”

“'But I'm a Cheerleader' was such a huge part of my life and a really big deal for me. It was the first time I had ever played a gay character.”

“I came out to myself when I was 12, which was a very emotional and difficult time.”

“The queers are coming out of the closets, closets are for clothes not for people.”

“What is it about our society that we find it necessary to put the gay man in a ghetto?”

“Even in a society that looks on the love of two men or two women as sinful, that is no justification for a law that declares that love unequal.”

“When I came out, it was for the best, and it was for the better, for me.”

“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”

“I have been a supporter of the rights of gays and lesbians since the early 1970s. That’s a long time.”

“My lesbianism is the avenue through which I have learned the most about silence and oppression.”

“When you're a gay person, you know what it's like to be a minority.”

“For a long time, I was in the closet, and it's a very lonely place to be.”

“This isn't an issue about whether or not you're for or against gay marriage. It's an issue about equality.”