Lgbtq Quotes

By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.

~ C. N. Lester

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

~ Dashanne Stokes

you asked me if I believed in eternal love. Love is something way too abstract and indefinable. It depends on what we perceive and what we experience. If we don't exist, it doesn't exist. And we change so much; love must change as well.

~ Julie Maroh

Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it? It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don’t want to go on because it’s easier to give up than to get hurt again.

~ Marieke Nijkamp

He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I think it's even more true today, even though our tribe has assimilated into homophobia. I mean, a person has to have magic to assert their identity without regard to all the bullshit, right?

~ Sherman Alexie

Changing the way LGBTQ individualswith chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively, as health care professionals) approach the conversation about what it means to be inclusive in our compassion. You don’t need to change your religious or moral beliefs to provide good care to LGBTQ individuals.

~ Kimberly D. Acquaviva

Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people?

~ Kristin Elizabeth Clark

I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he'd step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I'd been rehearsing for days now, Please, don't hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.

~ André Aciman

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important, it's an act of revolution.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

~ Cheryl Rainfield

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

~ Cheryl Rainfield

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

~ Suzette Mayr

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

~ C. Kennedy

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

~ Christina Lauren

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

~ Christina Lauren

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

~ Christina Lauren

He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.

~ Christina Lauren

I can't read him. I can't grasp him. I have no idea what he's thinking and if he's messing with me or if he really is this good, but never before have I wanted so fiercely to learn forward and put my mouth on someone's neck, begging them to want me.

~ Christina Lauren

Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending, or maybe we've just been hit by a meteor and this is the rapture and I'm given one last perfect moment before I'm sent to purgatory and he;s sent somewhere much, much better.It isn't his first kiss - I know that - but it's his first real one.

~ Christina Lauren

Everything feels yes.

~ Christina Lauren

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

~ Christina Lauren

The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not going to go away when you go on your mission. I'll still be here, and I'll still be thinking about all those things. I'll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I'll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren't gay.

~ Christina Lauren

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

~ Christina Lauren

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

~ Christina Lauren

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

~ C. Kennedy

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

~ C. Kennedy

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

~ A.s. King

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

~ Michael Cart

I believe that 'love' and 'wrong' are two deeply unrelated words that should never be thrown into the same sentence together. Like 'dessert' and 'broccoli.

~ Cat Winters

Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.

~ Dashanne Stokes

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

~ Dashanne Stokes