90 Lgbt Quotes

Following is our list of lgbt quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about lgbt pride.

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Famous Lgbt Quotes

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. - Judith Light

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. — Judith Light

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are. — Cyndi Lauper

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

I have so many gay friends that I love. — Carly Rae Jepsen

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away. — Lady Gaga

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends. - Laura Innes

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends. — Laura Innes

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. — Little Richard

Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice. — John Fugelsang

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive? — Ellen DeGeneres

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality. — Tucker Carlson

A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out with gays a lot and I just think they're adorable and hilarious. — Britney Spears

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time — Joe Biden

I'm angry because homophobia is still a thing. — Troye Sivan

Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy! — Britney Spears

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted. — Josh Schwartz

Short Lgbt Quotes

  • A winner is a dreamer who never gives up — Nelson Mandela
  • It's better to be a dictator than gay. — Alexander Lukashenko
  • Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. — Nelson Mandela
  • The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live. — Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender. — Hendrik Hertzberg
  • How dare you make my life a felony. — Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. — Alfred Kinsey
  • Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. — Leslie Feinberg
  • Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. — Jason Collins
  • When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free. — Barack Obama

Lgbt Image Quotes

Pride Lgbt Quotes

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients. — Ernest Van den Haag

Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. — Samuel Austin Allibone

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" — Jon Stewart

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

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love — Rita Mae Brown

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world. — Lindsey Shaw

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. — Amanda Bearse

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. — Derek Jarman

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason. — Christopher Hitchens

Lgbt Community Quotes

I was on Instagram or something and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, "Oh, my god!" I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community. — Alycia Debnam Carey

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life. — Tyler Oakley

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating. — Elton John

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal. — Lea Salonga

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens. — Cindy McCain

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy. — Andy Garcia

I trust that the space for LGBT community in Singapore will continue to grow, and that we will eventually have equality and freedom, even as the world begins to recognise that LGBT rights are human rights. — Ivan Heng

I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas. — Demi Lovato

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community. — Hillary Clinton

I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play. — John Amaechi

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More Lgbt Quotes

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. — Harvey Milk

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. — Julian Bond

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. — Nelson Mandela

I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views. — Sidney Crosby

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family — Drew Barrymore

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. — Brittney Griner

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. — Magnus Hirschfeld

At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no group be oppressed. — Keith Boykin

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements. — Janet Mock

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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me. — Marlon Riggs

I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better. — Brittney Griner

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. — Alex Sanchez

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way. — Lady Gaga

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming. — Matt Groening

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements. — Sayings

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. — George Michael

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. — Quentin Crisp

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

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. — Dan Savage

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love. — Hillary Clinton

Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let's talk about gay people and abortion! — Bill Maher

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. — Hillary Clinton

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun. — Rita Mae Brown

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit. — Nelson Mandela

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