Community Quote by Demi Lovato

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose.…

— Tim Cook

If you look at the history of the LGBTQ community, from my perspective growing up as I did in the U.K. in the '50s,…

— Rob Halford

I see myself as part of an LGBT community.

— Wes Streeting

Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile…

— Jamelle Bouie

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

— Richard Cordray

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't…

— Lori Lightfoot

All across my home state, throughout the South, and around the country, LGBT people and their families are seeking basic respect and dignity. This…

— Chad Griffin

If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would…

— Harvey Milk

I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.

— Celeste Ng

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a…

— Michael Arden

I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and…

— Jeff Sessions

I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever…

— Becky Albertalli