“To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing” — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop.” — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“They say that it’s always darkest before the dawn, but sometimes it’s really darkest the moment you realize a dream was just… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.” — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“Are they always so mean?” I asked. “It’s the oldest story in the book— the bullied become the bullies.” — David Clawson Copy Share Image
“The scrutiny on our bodies distracts us from what's really going on here: control. The emphasis on our appearance distracts us from… — Alok Vaid-Menon 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
“Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All… — Fox Benwell Copy Share Image
“What does total androgyny look like, when gender isn't even anything to do with appearance and voice?” — Alice Oseman Copy Share Image
“Queer people have had to actively make their culture and community and institutions, because the non-queer world is not going to do… — Sarah Liss Copy Share Image
“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why… — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
“This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the… — Martha Brockenbrough Copy Share Image
“Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately , like you owe… — Alice Oseman Copy Share Image
“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist… — Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“Child, I am taking you to The Autumnal Ball.” “The . . . but . . . but . . . I… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
“When trust is violated, it's like you're left with an empty piggy bank. Building trust again, she said, is like putting big,… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent.… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending,… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by… — Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman Copy Share Image
“I WONDER IF HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO Lorde know(s) cis-hets don't like me Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me I… — Christopher Soto Copy Share Image
“We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“She let her head sink, until her brow met the varnished glass. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Creed scowls. "Hardly. All he does now is mope like a goddamn teenage girl. Anytime I'm home, he's in his room with… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“A lot more airtime is given to other people's use of us, rather than our own experiences. Our existence is made into… — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
“That the United States Government can swiftly offer to help in gay fashion designer Edwin Chiloba's murder probe, which has been unraveled… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
“And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“As for why... I didn't want to admit that I was female. It wasn't that I wanted to be a boy, more… — Kabi Nagata Copy Share Image
“If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there… — C. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I admit, I bear my share of the responsibility for their getting it all wrong, so I guess I’m just going to… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
