This collection holds 63 lgbt quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Hillary Clinton, Lady Gaga and Nelson Mandela.

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Never be bullied into silence.

It's great to be out and proud.

I desire a person, not a gender.

How dare you make my life a felony.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

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

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

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

Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

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.

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.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

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.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

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.

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.

There was this very strange moment when the world discovered what was going on for LGBT people in Russia. It was very gratifying: I thought, there is a world out there, a saner world. It had felt sort of desperate and bizarre until that point.

I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.

What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly "are" but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

Trump's dividing us. Yes, but people were already divided; Trump just expressed that division. And we have to find a way to, within a very heterogeneous party, even though we're the minority, we're a much more diverse party, of course, than the Republicans are. How do we talk about universal programs, have a universal message, and make sure we're talking about recent immigrants and non-immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, LGBT people, as well? To me, that is a serious problem.

Being LGBT does not make you less human.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

Gay rights and human rights are one and the same.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

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