Accepting Quote by John Amaechi

When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and…

— S. Bear Bergman

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world…

— Leslie Feinberg

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my…

— Kyan Douglas

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

— Mischa Barton

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

— Graham Norton

“Although some lesbians argue that butches have nothing to do with “being a man,” others insist that their butchness is or was only a…

— Judith Butler

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

— Shirley Chisholm

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

— Barbara Jordan

To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people…

— Frank Arthur Swinnerton

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

— Barbara Jordan

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

— Forest Whitaker

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

— Nicholas Gonzalez