Quotes on Lgbt

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

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

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

Being LGBT does not make you less human.

There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?