988 Quotes About Lgbt

The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies

Consider that people will talk about the fact that I now "pass" as a woman, but nobody ever asks about how difficult it must have been for me to "pass" as a man before.

Relationship (definition): Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.

Este libro está dedicado a todos esos chicos que tienen más amigas que amigos, su voz suena más aguda de lo normal y caminan distinto. A los niños a los que llaman «maricón» por los pasillos del instituto. A quienes los defienden. A todas aquellas personas que se marchan para volver. A los que cuando llegan, comienzan. A los valientes. Este libro está dedicado a todo el que amó incluso cuando ya no quedaban razones.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.

Something about her reached me on a deeper level than I had ever experienced and it was frightening. It was exciting. It was dangerous.

In the Somali culture many things go unsaid: how we love, who we love and why we love that way. I don't know why Suldana loves the way she does. I don't know why she loves who she does. But I do know that by respecting her privacy I am letting her dream in a way that my generation was not capable of. I'm letting her reach for something neither one of us can articulate.

She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.

Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.