Lgbt Quotes

There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don’t condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life anymore worrying about what other people will think.

The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging our marriages and our human rights and we are starting to receive the rights we were always entitled too. Therefore, no one is "giving" or "allowing" us anything. We are simply and powerfully starting to reclaim what has always been ours. The moralistic patriarchy has made this a long and bloody battle, but the concept has always been simple and I am glad it is finally sinking in. We are here, we have always been here, we are not going anywhere, and trying to suppress us under false puritanical mores is not smart and will not make us go away. It's not just about the LGBTQ communities but all suppressed minorities. If you listen closely you can here the subtle but real shifting of the winds to a more enlightened and egalitarian society. It won't happen without work, and it won't happen without intelligence. Never stop learning, never stop growing, never be ashamed because you are different, and never stop knowing that there is power in community.

Cristina Marrero

Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight.

DaShanne Stokes

Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people.

DaShanne Stokes

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

DaShanne Stokes

The 'Righteous' are mightier than 'God.

Shivish

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

DaShanne Stokes

And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.

Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.

Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

DaShanne Stokes

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

DaShanne Stokes

The power of love is that it sees all people.

DaShanne Stokes

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

DaShanne Stokes

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

DaShanne Stokes

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

DaShanne Stokes