Lgbt Pride Quotes

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Government, Citizens

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

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

  Derek Jarman

  Sea, Lgbt Community, Gay Pride

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, People, Labels

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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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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Marriage Equality, Treated

  Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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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, Homosexuality

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

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

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doors, Positive Energy

  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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• 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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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, People, Homosexuality

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Important, Clerks

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

  Derek Jarman

  Sex, Gay, Rights

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

  Troy Perry

  Gay, Shepherds, Lord

  "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Way

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• Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Lgbt Community, Mind, Trying

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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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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• 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

  Gay, Sick, Patient

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• 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

  Inspirational, Gay, Army

  "You Homophobes Just Jealous Gay Weddings will be Better" by Francesca Biller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Marriage, Gay, Lgbt Community

  "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

  Lindsey Shaw

  Pages Turning, One Direction, Feelings

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