Lgbt Quotes - Page 3

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

It's great to be out and proud.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

Trump's dividing us. Yes, but people were already divided; Trump just expressed that division. And we have to find a way to, within a very heterogeneous party, even though we're the minority, we're a much more diverse party, of course, than the Republicans are. How do we talk about universal programs, have a universal message, and make sure we're talking about recent immigrants and non-immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, LGBT people, as well? To me, that is a serious problem.

I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

This president Barack Obama has done more for the LGBT community than any president in history. It's just an objective fact. And his legacy is secure in terms of the advancement of the rights of the LGBT community, from 'Don't Ask', 'Don't Tell' to his support for overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, and of course marriage equality, work on HIV and AIDS, and other things.

In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

I desire a person, not a gender.

There was this very strange moment when the world discovered what was going on for LGBT people in Russia. It was very gratifying: I thought, there is a world out there, a saner world. It had felt sort of desperate and bizarre until that point.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee, but through other vehicles as well. Expect to see the African-American community, the Latino community, the LGBT community, and others represented on stage and in the substance of our policies throughout the week.

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community.