124 Quotes About Lgbt-rights

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them.It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.

On a day-to-day basis you forget that being a lesbian, being gay or trans, you're not like everybody else, that you're different. You lige your life, working hard, paying taxes, trying ti be productive, looking for love and happiness like everybody else, and then something like this happens and you're forced to confront the fact [...]

On a day-to-day basis you forget that being a lesbian, being gay or trans, you're not like everybody else, that you're different. You lige your life, working hard, paying taxes, trying to be productive, looking for love and happiness like everybody else, and then something like this happens and you're forced to confront the fact [...]

Being true to oneself creates the integrity and self-respect we need to have if we are to extend that respect to others.

One day, progress being what it was, I hoped no one would have to have a big gay coming-out or a bisexual coming-out. It would just be what it was, and that would be that. But we weren't quite there yet.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

I hear the word "tolerance" -- that some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be "tolerated." One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

You’d feel more comfortable if they just shut up and continued to live a lie in order to make you more at ease, because you, as a straight, cis-gendered male in this highly misogynistic society, feel completely entitled to force others into discomfort so long as your comfort is ensured.