Gay Pride Quotes

• Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Lgbt Pride, People

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• You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

  Barry Goldwater

  Funny, Military, Gay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Government

  1982 Speech, 28 Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

  Jason Collins

  Gay, Lgbt Community, May

  "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  Richard Pryor

  Gay, People, Black

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• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

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• Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.

  John Fugelsang

  Hate, Gay, Lifestyle Choices

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jun 26, 2013

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

  Tim Cook

  Pride, Gay, Proud

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up". www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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  If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doors, Lgbt Pride

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination (the version of recording given to Frank Robinson) as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 372), 1982.

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• If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Culture, Influence, Homosexual

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Aug 02, 2010

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• Never be bullied into silence.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Inspirational, Silence, Lgbt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution

  Pat Parker

  Party, Reading, Home

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• One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

  Jasmine Guy

  Lost Love, Pride, Gay

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• To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, Important, Agendas

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• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

  George Weinberg

  Mother, Pride, Gay

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• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Pride, Son, Gay

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