We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are…

- Leslie Feinberg

I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please.…

- Leslie Feinberg

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

- Leslie Feinberg

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. …

- Leslie Feinberg

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

- Leslie Feinberg

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

- Leslie Feinberg

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

- Leslie Feinberg

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don…

- Leslie Feinberg

I reserve my right to be complex.

- Leslie Feinberg