lgbtq

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

Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

I have eyes, and you can't keep yours off me." Simon, Finally Letting Go

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now." "Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time." I laughed. "It's true. He is.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

I was shut off from my body; I had barely thought about sexuality or longing. Up until this point, my sexual experiences had felt business like or even transactional...I hadn't been suppressing urges or denying my needs. I didn't feel like I had any, not corporeal ones. My journal entries from that time speak to depression and feelings of isolation, fears that a friend would leave, a sense that I had been responsible for my mother's departure and would therefore cause anyone I loved or needed to leave. I was still spending most of my time in my head. I was removed from my own feelings.

Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning.

So I never told you about my sexual orientation - it means we were never close friends. My body my business.

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

Nails that claw by a beautiful mind.A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word: The B in LBGTQ Poetry'.

I think you're something wonderful.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.