Lgbtqia Quotes

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?

~ Dashanne Stokes

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

~ Dashanne Stokes

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

~ Dashanne Stokes

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

~ Fox Benwell

Cam knew that if she succeeded, it was going to destroy her, but she could worry about that later. All she had to do at the moment was cut her own heart out without letting the wound show too much; she'd have plenty of time to bleed after Alex had gone.

~ Jo Victor

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

~ C. Kennedy

When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfully) to mate with the male in front of it.

~ Simon Levay

That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her.

~ Jo Victor

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.

~ Abigail Tarttelin

To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.

~ Christina Lauren

America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat. Sarah Mullen

~ Erin Passons

No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.

~ Tyler Oakley

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

~ C. Kennedy

It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.

~ C. Kennedy

One can learn from what is not said.

~ C. Kennedy

Back to reality, after a brief but pleasant dream.

~ Jo Victor

I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.

~ Kim Van Alkemade

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

~ Suzette Mayr

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

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

~ Christina Lauren

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ 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

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.

~ John Corey Whaley

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

He was tiredof being calleda fag and teasedfor his sexualityby one of the guards,so he tried to hanghimself, twiceThe kid got a littlecloser the secondtime, but I won’t bearound to see athird

~ Phil Volatile