“Tudo isso porque ter vencido me daria sobrevivência, mas Leona? Leona me dava vontade de viver.” — Sarah Oliveira Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand,… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told… — Amy Kaufman Burk Copy Share Image
“I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.” — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“BL series play an important role in creating a space where people feel they're not alone. Seeing characters on screen who reflect… — Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai Copy Share Image
“Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“There are times when I feel like I can’t be me. I can’t simply exist. I have to offer something in exchange.… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
“It's stupid because I don't even know her, but sometimes you see someone and there's just this flicker. Like a light bulb… — Jaye Robin Brown Copy Share Image
“People talk about coming out as though it’s this big one-time event. But really, most people have to come out over and… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
“Changing the way LGBTQ individuals with chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively,… — Kimberly D. Acquaviva Copy Share Image
“I can't read him. I can't grasp him. I have no idea what he's thinking and if he's messing with me or… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“People have the right to their opinions. But I also have the right to my family. No one in our country should… — Natalie Perry Copy Share Image
“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“When are you going to get a fella?" Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. "I have one who… — Genevieve Valentine Copy Share Image
“So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be… — Troy D. Perry Copy Share Image
“Suicide. This is the exact opposite of last time, for this time I'm experiencing a kind of pleasure in life, in being… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
“The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“But what I want to know is why lesbians dress so fuckin' bad? I mean, they dress like they going to a… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Boo-Boo Pennyroyal did not like her male and female slaves to mingle. In the operas that she adored, young people brought together… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from… — Rebecca Ann Parker Copy Share Image
“Makeup can be used to express yourself as well. Those experiences should not be limited to women. Everyone should be free to… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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“Nails that claw by a beautiful mind. A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word:… — S.C. Silver Copy Share Image
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside. — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Lord knows why I find you attractive, Michael, when you generally smell like weed and broken hobo dreams.” — S.J. Goslee Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.” — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.” — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
