Able Quote by Jean O'Leary

Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to…

— Abdellah Taia

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

— Ezra Furman

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror…

— Audre Lorde

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

— Charles M. Blow

“There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of…

— Simon LeVay

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get…

— Gilbert Baker

What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify that kind…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.

— Christopher Wylie

The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

— Andrew Solomon

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think…

— Ncuti Gatwa

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you…

— Rachel Maddow