988 Quotes About Lgbt

Hurt by me, they will not call meBrother. Hear me coming,And they cross their legs. As menAre wont to hate women,As women are taught to hateThemselves, they hate a womanThey smell in me, every muscle Of her body clenched

wtf even is my sexuality

Accepted social gender roles and expectations are so entrenched in our culture that most people cannot imagine any other way. As a result, individuals fitting neatly into these expectations rarely if ever question what gender really means. They have never had to, because the system has worked for them.

Ce qui s'est passé ensuite, je pourrais le raconter dans les moindres détails. Le contact de nos peaux, les variations de nos souffles, l'intensité de nos regards dans la pénombre, nos chuchotements, nos gestes empressés, parfois maladroits. J'ai ancré dans ma mémoire chaque nanoseconde de notre première fois. Oui, je pourrais vraiment la raconter dans les moindres détails, mais cela n'appartient qu'à nous.

Ninguém vai olhar para a minha pulseira colorida. No fundo eu sei que quero mostrar isso para mim mesmo.

When straight-identified women have sex with women, the broader culture waits in anticipation for them to return to what is likely their natural, heterosexual state; when straight-identified men have sex with men, the culture waits in anticipation for them to admit that they are gay.

What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.

I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places.

It was the only act of rebellion I knew—to be worthy of such an insult as “butterfly.