Community Quote by 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

Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in…

— Dean Spade

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not…

— Nico Santos

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the…

— Jasmine Guy

I feel we need to stop worrying about pro-gay movements and start worrying about fundamentalist movements. It's not just about how gay people are…

— Jason Sellards

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

— Chelsea Manning

I think the LGBTQ+ community need their time in the light, they need their time to shine.

— Dylan Llewellyn

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens…

— Sasha Velour

You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political movement. This…

— Masha Gessen

It feels like for a long time we, in the LGBTQ community, have been fighting for our role, sort of fighting for our visibility…

— Scott Evans

We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for…

— Alaska

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the…

— Ai-jen Poo