Citizens Quote by Barack Obama

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness…

— Edmund White

The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by doing so,…

— Sharice Davids

We've made some incredible progress, but there are still steps we need to take to ensure LGBT Americans are treated as equal citizens.

— John Fetterman

Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They…

— Ilana Mercer

I think that we've made a lot of progress in the years since the Stonewall uprising, and as far as equality for marriage and…

— Alaska

We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think…

— Sasha Velour

I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we…

— Jill Stein

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting…

— Todd Haynes

It's amazing how far that we've come and the strides we've made in the LGBTQIA community with regard to acceptance and equality and really…

— Shangela

Our nation was built on the promise of equality and opportunity, and the Equality Act extends that promise to our extraordinary LGBTQ community.

— Dean Phillips

LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the…

— Hillary Clinton

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

— Zachary Quinto