Lgbt Quotes - Page 11

• Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Caring, Expression

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!

  Pauley Perrette

  Mean, Kids, Rights

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.

  George Takei

  Country, Stars, Thinking

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• It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels like it's more than just a movie or entertainment. Even though the riots were one of the most pivotal riots in civil rights history, especially for the LGBT community, I knew surprisingly very little about them. You don't learn about Stonewall in schools. It's a bit gross really! So it certainly felt like something that was quite important.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Stars, School, Rights

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually.

  Dan Savage

  Suicide, Philosophical, Pride

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

  Margaret Cho

  Space, People, Goal

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Animal, Way, Sexuality

  Source: optionsri.org

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• No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Practice, Tradition

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, Racism, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

  Corey Hart

  Song, Gay, Men

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• In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, People, Just Being

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother". Interview with John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

  Alex Colville

  Animal, Thinking, Evil

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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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• For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Dark, Gay

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Successful, Lgbt Community, Bridges

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• I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and it's because it's what I'm interested in. I'm not going to read a script and say, 'They're not gay, I'm not going to do it,' but I am interested in playing more gay people, because I've only played one gay person, and I've done a fair amount of movies, and I am interested in those stories. So for me, there's no should-I-or-shouldn't-I. It all feels natural.

  Ellen Page

  Character, Gay, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, Lgbt Community, Perspective

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

  Tyler Oakley

  School, Gay, People

  "From YouTube to reality: 'The Amazing Race' stacks new 'social media' season with YouTube's most likable guys". Interview with Scott Porch, www.salon.com. February 12, 2016.

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• It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Mouths, Homosexuality

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

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• Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

  Cindy McCain

  Government, Class, Lgbt Community

  "To-Do List: Fort Hood Hearing Resumed, Peace Talks Renewed, AOL Revamped" by Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Brother, Direct Action

  "Election Day is the Most Important Day of Your Life" by Joe Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I did sit down with Jared Polis (D-CO), and we had a good discussion about having the LGBT [Equality] Caucus pool some money and perhaps hire a staffer like some of the other caucuses do. That way we could hopefully be even more proactive on issues like ENDA, student non-discrimination and some of the other bills that are out thereit’s just a matter of now figuring out — having seven of us total — how can we best move those forward either through legislation and working with the president to issue orders.

  Mark Pocan

  Moving, Order, Issues

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

  Tim Gunn

  Believe, People, Individual

  Interview with Michael Chernin, www.brownpoliticalreview.org. May 7, 2014.

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• Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

  Stephen Fry

  Ignorance, Issues, Community

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