Lgbtq Quotes

“To the hyper-judgmental gay community, I say this: don't throw stones when you live in glass houses, everyone can see you barebacking strangers from the internet. You also have bad taste. Glass walls? Time to execute your decorator. And yourself.”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“Aunque según mi experiencia no puede contarse con la lealtad, siempre puede tenerse esperanza en ella, y perseguirla, y debe florecer en el suelo más inverosímil.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“En consecuencia, el Wolfenden Report será indefinidamente rechazado, continuarán las acciones de la policía, y Clive, desde el sitial del juez, continuará condenando a Alec en el banquillo. Maurice debe escapar.”
― E.M. Forster

“I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Emmy written all over it."

"Bury your gays." I reply, utterly deadpan.

Jack rolls his eyes.

In film, in TV, in books... the queer characters never get a happy ending," I press. "Sometimes they're the first to go, other times they make some brave sacrifice in the finale, but it always ends in tragedy and death. That's why it's called bury your gays.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“Tudo isso porque ter vencido me daria sobrevivência, mas Leona? Leona me dava vontade de viver.”
― Sarah Oliveira, Opostas em Guerra: Um enemies to lovers nos anos 80

“And a naïve part of me thinks that since we have made it this far, we will make it forever. If we existed for even a second, we could exist eternally.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“A próxima vez que for xingar um gay ou ateu no WhatsApp, sugiro fazer um backup do seu computador. Vai que ele decida defender a honra do pai, que era gay e ateísta.”
― Jorge Guerra Pires

“You never forget your first "faggot." Because the memory, in its way, makes you. It becomes a spine for the body of anxieties and insecurities that will follow, something to hang all that meat on. Before you were just scrawny; now you're scrawny because you're a faggot. Before you were just bookish; now you're bookish because you're a faggot.”
― Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

“This is Pride Month, and in this life, you’ve got to be your own hero. Forget waiting for a caped crusader—grab your own cape and strut your stuff. Embrace your true colors, wave that rainbow flag like it’s your superpower, and remember: the best hero is the one staring back at you in the mirror. Be bold, be fierce, and let your pride shine brighter than any bat signal. So, suit up and show the world that the greatest superhero of all is you, living your truth unapologetically!”
― Life is Positive

“The Lottery by Stewart Stafford

It was New York, 1984,
The AIDS tsunami roared in,
Friends, old overnight, no more,
Breathless, I went for a check-up.

A freezing winter's dawn,
A solitary figure before me,
What we called a drag queen,
White heels trembled in the cold.

"Hi, are you here to get tested?"
Gum chewed, brown eyes stared.
This was not my type of person,
I turned heel and walked away.

At month's end, a crippling flu,
The grey testing centre called,
Two hundred people ahead of me;
A waking nightmare all too real.

I gave up and turned to leave,
But a familiar voice called out:
"Hey, you there, come back!"
I stopped and turned around.

The drag queen stood there in furs,
But sicker, I didn't recognise them,
"Stand with me in the line, honey."
"Nah, I'm fine, I'll come back again."

"Support an old broad before she faints?"
A voice no longer frail but pin-sharp.
I got in line to impatient murmurs:
"If anyone has a problem, see me!"

Sylvester on boombox, graveyard choir.
My pal's stage name was Carol DaRaunch,
(After the Ted Bundy female survivor)
Their real name was Ernesto Rodriguez.

After seeing the doctor, Carol hugged me,
Writing down their number on some paper,
With their alias not their real name on it:
"Is this the number of where you work?"

"THAT is my home number to call me on.
THAT'S my autograph, for when I'm famous!"
"I was wrong about you, Carol," I said.
"Baby, it takes time to get to know me!"

A hug, shimmy, the threadbare blonde left.
A silent chorus of shuffling dead men walking,
Spartan results, a young man's death sentence.
Real words faded rehearsal, my eyes watered.

Two weeks on, I cautiously phoned up Carol.
The receiver was picked up, dragging sounds,
Like furniture being moved: "Is Carol there?"
"That person is dead." They hung up on me.

All my life's harsh judgements, dumped on Carol,
Who was I to win life's lottery over a guardian angel?
I still keep that old phone number forty years on,
Crumpled, faded, portable guilt lives on in my wallet.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The greatest barriers that we face in this historic moment are not born of our unique identities and experiences as 2SLGBTQIA+ people, but rather stem from the systems of power that have ignorantly and arrogantly assumed to be “normal”.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Alle verdienen es, für die Dauer ihres Seins auf dieser Erde in Gefäßen zu leben, die den schönsten, besten Resonanzraum für ihr Lied bieten.”
― Eleanor Bardilac, Die Magie goldgewebter Herzen

“El miedo que se pasa en el armario fabrica monstruos a partir de sombras chinescas.”
― Alana S Portero, La mala costumbre (Novela) / The Bad Habit (A Novel)

“Nora was at the center of the world, and I was not there with her. All of my strength, and she was still separated from me.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“I heard her voice, echoing through my mind in all its calming beauty.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Outwardly, we are all living the same life, but inwardly, I hope everybody has as many private crises as I do.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Favors of the cut sleeve are generous,
Love of the half-eaten peach never dies.”
― Liu Zun

“Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you bought cash in hand. Not the gorgeous uncertainty of a woman’s smile.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“—A la mierda con eso. —Agatha parpadeó
asombrada—. Ponme a prueba. Después de esto no puede
haber algo…
No pudo reaccionar. Los labios de ella se apretaron
contra los suyos con fuerza, pidiendo permiso. Noah abrió
la boca dejando que sus lenguas se encontrasen. La
sostuvo por la cadera y pegó sus cuerpos.”
― S. L. , Detrás de mis palabras

“I've been in headlines across the United States and across the world, I've been named personally in anti-trans legislation. I've been honored by top LGBTQ organizations, I've been painted as a hero, as a villain, as a symbol, as a representative for an issue that has taken center stage in the culture wars. But when people are busy turning you into a symbol, they forget what you really are: a human being. A person with needs and desires, fears and hopes just like everyone else. At the end of the day, I'm just a girl with a dream. A girl with so much love in her heart.
And all I want, all I've ever wanted, is the freedom to run.”
― CeCé Telfer, Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner

“There is nothing more powerful than my mouth and who I choose to let live there. At night, when I speak with God, I say Gluttony strokes the queer to joy. And Honey, we like it that way.”
― Kayleb Rae Candrilli, All the Gay Saints

“All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Advocating for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks- for any marginalized group- is about affirming the full dignity and humanity of every person, without requiring us to reshape who we are to fit into the expectations of others. Yet, there’s often a subtle (or not-so-subtle) pressure to adjust or tone down parts of our identities so that those in the majority—often cisgender, heterosexual folks—feel more comfortable engaging with our message.

Here's the tension: on the one hand, we want to be effective advocates, building bridges and finding common ground; on the other, the expectation that we should compromise or simplify parts of who we are to be more palatable can erase the very unique humanity we are advocating for. When identity is compromised with conditional acceptance, it reinforces the idea that who we are is something optional or negotiable.
Imagine if you were asked to hide or downplay essential aspects of your own identity just to be heard. It’s not just uncomfortable—it sends a message that your full self is unwelcome.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine a world in which we are all embraced and celebrated in life-giving mutuality. We must stir our imaginations to conceive of a Church where every member of this vibrant Body is recognized for the divine image we reflect.

And before we nod in easy agreement to this truth, we must also recognize that we have been conditioned into a crisis of imagination. We have lost so much of that creative capacity- and we must rekindle it! And one crucial way to do that is to elevate those lives and voices that demonstrate that imagination, found most often among those very people who live under that suffering and oppression.

As Walter Brueggemann reminds us, "It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“No caso do cristão, ele vai querer ser visto como tolerante: ser cristão e ser tolerante são duas coisas contraditórias, a não ser que seja um cristão somente na casca.”
― Jorge Guerra Pires, Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional, vol. 1 (Bolsonarismo) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)

“Ally Pyx is a writer from Tijuana, México. A place for brave people who are full of passion. To survive these lands, you must live beyond the heart. And this author is an expert at that.
Ally can navigate the most fantastic universes, while depicting the most human emotions. A beautiful portrait of our inner self through magic and unexplored worlds. She has many talents that identify her as a visual artist, writer, photographer, journalist and creative director. And is always urging us to open our hearts, senses and spirits.
Because above all, Ally’s mission is to connect with something deep. And to show how the world looks through her eyes.”
-Paul Martín del Campo.”
― Ally Pyx, The Omen Coven: Fiery Heart

“But I want to kiss you,and I thought you ought to know"
"You thought I ought to know."
Eddie shrugs. "I'm an honest guy.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

“My queerness isn’t just a matter of who I sleep with, bigger than sexuality, a subversive reclamation of life outside of the lines”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“For all of you out there, visible & invisible. Closeted or out & proud. Femme & Masc & every glorious stripe on the rainbow in between.

You incandescent queens, deliciously undefinable androgynous souls, chivalrous butches, tomboy dykes, drop-dead yet still invisible femmes. You with your flare, your flamboyance, your rugged individuality, your glorious diversity, your insistence on being seen, your quiet but steady presence in the places that matter. You, the cliche and every unexpected exception. The world’s stereotypes brought to blazing life & you who smashes the boxes & changes the paradigms & refuses to be painted into place. You, who knows that queer looks, speaks, sounds & moves through this world in a million different ways. You, the grieving. You the dancing. You, the proud & the humble & the defiant & the free.

Whatever label you choose & define for yourself.
Whatever identity feels like home to you.
However you have come to know & name yourself & your good, good, love.
You are my family.
I see you.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“But I do think love,” I quickly say, “love, how do I talk about it. Love has no shape. Or rather, it is shapeless until it is not. It has no form until it takes a form... Loving,” I tell my lover, “it should always be like you’ve never loved before.”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Be Your Own Bae