Come up Quote by Laura Innes

“And so, if you want to understand why a straight person might want to become an advocate for gay and lesbian people, get to…

— Gene Robinson

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

— Patrisse Cullors

“being gay is not about what we do; it’s about who we are. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this and the…

— Gene Robinson

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the…

— Adrienne Rich

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

— A. J. McLean

We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in…

— Amber Hollibaugh

By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian…

— Urvashi Vaid

Being honest to who I am led me to write 'If Our Love Is Wrong,' and that allowed me to fully realize the direction…

— Calum Scott

“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such…

— Richard Dunphy

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

— Esther Perel

“Homosexuality is not because of our sexual orientation, but our eagerness and enthusiasm for experiencing something new, different and unusual.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged…

— Judith Butler