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“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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“F**k normal. If it means a lifetime of unhappiness, then I don't want that. -Damian Thackeray” — Patrick Macfarland Copy Share Image
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“Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
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“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it… — José Esteban Muñoz Copy Share Image
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“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
