People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.
I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You're not scared. You're an asshole. @ -Morgan Freeman
If Harry Potter taught us anything it's that no one should live in a closet.
Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.
Love is love.
Being gay is like being left handed. Some people are, most people aren't and nobody really knows why. It's not right or wrong, it's just the way things are.
Love is too beautiful to be hidden in the closet.
Don't change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself so that the right people will love you.
I won't apologize for who I am.
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. @ -Howard Dean
Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.
Love is love. People should be able to do whatever makes them happy. @ -Britney Spears
Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive? @ -Ellen DeGeneres
Don't ever be afraid to show off your true colors.
If you truly want to be with a person, listen to your heart and not all the voices from all the people around you.
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. @ -Chris Colfer
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. @ -Connor Franta
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away. @ -Lady Gaga
You don't have to be gay to be a supporter - you just have to be a human. @ -Daniel Radcliffe
A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
Be careful who you hate. It could be someone you love.
Love who your heart wants, not what your eyes want, don't worry about what others say or think, this love is yours, not theirs.
Marriage is about love, not gender.
In a world with so much hatred, everyone should be allowed to love.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. @ -Tennessee Williams
I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day. @ -Anderson Cooper
I never want people to feel like they aren't gay enough or straight enough. It's about what's in your heart. @ -Jonathan Van Ness
Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice. @ -John Fugelsang
I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself. @ -Emma Watson
Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
There's no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It's your journey. Do it the way you wanna do it. @ -Tan
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender. @ -Tori Spelling
Love is never wrong. @ -Melissa Etheridge
'Cause shade never made anybody less gay. @ -Taylor Swift
You can choose to love whoever you love. @ -Jay Z
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. @ -Elliot Page
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? @ -Ernest J. Gaines
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. @ -Harvey Milk
It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue? @ -Janet Jackson
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none @ -Thomas Jefferson
When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free. @ -Barack Obama
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. @ -Harvey Fierstein
Love cannot be killed or swept aside. Now – Fill the world with music, love, and pride. Never apologize for who you love.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. @ -Francis Maude
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. @ -Sir Ian McKellen
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values. @ -Gilbert Baker
Pride is not an LGBT celebration, it's a human rights celebration - it's a celebration of equality - it's a celebration of inclusion - it's a celebration of acceptance. @ -Abhijit Naskar
Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation. It is influenced most by a parent's ability to create a loving and nurturing home. This ability has nothing to do with whether the parent is gay or straight.
Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family. @ -Julianne Moore
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. @ -Rachel Maddow
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. @ -P.C. Cast
When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family. Even my grandpa, who is... super old-school, was like, 'Good for you!'. @ -Ariana Grande
We are powerful because we have survived. @ -Audre Lorde
If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form. @ -Will Smith
Hope will never be silent. @ -Harvey Milk
Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. @ -Sylvia Rivera
I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. @ -Janet Mock
I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family. @ -Drew Barrymore
Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally. @ -Lady Gaga
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. @ -James Baldwin
I don't know what people are scared of. Maybe they think their children will be influenced, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. @ -Alice Walker
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that American dream. @ -Michelle Obama
If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness. @ -Mariah Carey
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. @ -Boethius
I believe we can all come together, because if you take away the labels, you realize we're far more alike than we are different. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised a green light to move forward. @ -Harvey Milk
I was not ladylike, not was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. @ -Michael Cunningham
Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly. @ -Edie Windsor
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. @ -Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
My sexuality is my own sexuality. It doesn't belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No. @ -Ashraf Zanati
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life. @ -Lady Gaga
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. @ -Muhammad Ali
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognizing who we are. @ -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. @ -Simone de Beauvoir
Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges. @ -Bob Paris
But I always have and still do consider myself queer. To me, being queer isn't who you're sleeping with; it's just an idea that sexuality isn't gender-based, that it's love-based. @ -Ani DiFranco
I've never been interested in being invisible and erased. @ -Laverne Cox
I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you. @ -Chaz Bono
It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love. @ -Brad Pitt
I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. I want to march for tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. I want to take a stand and say, "Me, too". @ -Jason Collins
It wasn't an option for me to be closeted or to keep it to myself. Sky's blue, grass is green. Can't fight it. @ -Jonathan Van Ness
No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up, and start to fight. @ -Harvey Milk
This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate. @ -Tyler Oakley
The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well. @ -Cassandra Duffy
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. @ -Bayard Rustin
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I'm shortchanging myself. @ -Zanele Muholi
I am straight enough to know that if you want to marry whoever you want to marry, you should be able to marry whoever you want to marry. @ -Patti Labelle
The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. @ -Anthony Venn Brown
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint. @ -Truman Capote
There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are. @ -Tammy Baldwin
Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it. @ -James Baldwin
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay. @ -Portia de Rossi
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. @ -E. M. Forster
We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity. @ -George Takei
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts. @ -Barbara Gittings
It is absolutely imperative that every human being's freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world. @ -Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better. @ -Brittney Griner
I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity. @ -Selisse Berry
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. @ -Gore Vidal
It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist. @ -Laverne Cox
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. @ -E. M. Forster
It takes no compromise to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. @ -Harvey Milk
Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. @ -Jason Collins
