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Never be bullied into silence. -- Harvey Fierstein
You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. -- Judith Light
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. -- Hillary Clinton
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. -- Martina Navratilova
Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. -- Jason Collins
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. -- Harvey Milk
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. -- Leslie Feinberg
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. -- Kurt Cobain
Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option. -- Ken Mehlman
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. -- Armistead Maupin
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive." -- Sharon Gless
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. -- Barry Goldwater
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. -- Howard Dean
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. -- Harvey Milk
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life. -- Lady Gaga
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
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. -- Yakov Smirnoff
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. -- Lance Loud
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime. -- Lady Gaga
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed. -- Plato
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. -- Marlo Thomas
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
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. -- Alex Sanchez
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person. -- Pope Francis
Being LGBT does not make you less human. -- Hillary Clinton
Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens. -- Cindy McCain
I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues. -- Bernie Sanders
I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community. -- Anthony Foxx
I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families. -- Chuck Hagel
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I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. -- Sara Ramirez
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform, -- Urvashi Vaid
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements. -- Janet Mock
We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community. -- Hillary Clinton
I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community, -- Johnny Weir
LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin. -- Mallory Ortberg
I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity. -- Kit Williamson
This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. -- Kavita Ramdas
I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time. -- Boy George
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
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted. -- Amber Heard
Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent. -- Masha Gessen
I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's true. -- Steven Petrow
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
Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT. -- Hillary Clinton
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence. -- Yahya Jammeh
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City. -- Christine Quinn
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! -- Hannah Hart
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption. -- Jasmine Guy
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]. -- Cakes da killa
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy. -- Andy Garcia
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
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
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
I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset. -- Mark Takano
The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them "A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be. -- Tom Limoncelli
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I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent. -- Cakes da killa
I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that. -- Lana Parrilla
I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift. -- Demi Lovato
I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress. -- Mark Takano
I probably do the most for the gay and lesbian community, or LGBT, but I don't have one that I focus on. I just try and kind of do a lot for different charities. -- Chelsea Handler
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
There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me. -- Naya Rivera

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