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#1

“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, death, death-of-a-loved-one, greek, greek-mythology, lgbt, lgbtq, love, mythology, patroclus, trojan-war

2063 likes

#2

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: bi, gay, lgbt

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#3

“The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.”
― Rachel Maddow

tags: coming-out-of-the-closet, commentary, gay, honesty, lesbian, lgbt, msnbc, political, politics, rachel-maddow, truth

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#4

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
― Harvey Milk

tags: civil-rights, gay, inspirational, lgbt

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#5

“Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral.

And it's relentless.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

tags: lesbian, lgbt, love, obsession, queer

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#6

“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

tags: gay, lesbian, lgbt, mythology

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#7

“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

tags: lgbt, love, sexual-preference, weetzie-bat

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#8

“It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.”
― Connor Franta

tags: coming-out, lgbt, lgbtqia, positivity, team-internet, youtube

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#9

“I am not here to entertain straight people.”
― Sarah Schulman

tags: gay, glbt, lesbian, lgbt, queer, straight-people

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#10

“It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex - trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it. Who calls whom a bitch? Who cries harder when the cat dies? Which one spends the most time in the bathroom? I guess they think that it's that cut-and-dried, though of course it's not. Hugh might do the cooking, and actually wear an apron while he's at it, but he also chops the firewood, repairs the hot-water heater, and could tear off my arm with no more effort than it takes to uproot a dandelion.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor, lgbt

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#11

“There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: ari, dante, inspirational, lgbt, love

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#12

“If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.”
― DaShanne Stokes

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#13

“wtf even is my sexuality”
― Dan Howell

tags: confusion, lgbt

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#14

“All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break”
― Catherine M. Wilsonson

tags: lesbian, lgbt, love, warroirs

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#15

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

tags: gay, lgbt, pain, truth

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#16

“She’s inching forward.
Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?”
― Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

tags: lgbt, sapphic

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#17

“What do you want?
I want to stop living in fear. I want to stop coming up with excuses about why I'm not interested in dating. I want my family to know me. I want to get to learn more about Lisa. I want to stop feeling like everything I am is inadequate or makes me unworthy of love because of something I can't help.”
― Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

tags: lesbian, lgbt, sapphic, wlw

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#18

“It will never stop hurting but it will stop mattering.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

tags: broken-heart, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, lgbt, loss, remorse

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#19

“I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they'd like me quickly and wouldn't try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as wisecracking Cameron, the orphan. Maybe it was a little like flirting, but also a kind of protection: Don't get too close; I'm just jokes with substance.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

tags: funny, humour, lgbt, love

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#20

“The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I've found one overriding thing about my personal election, it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope....”
― Harvey Milk

tags: harvey-milk, lgbt

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#21

“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.”
― N.R. Walker, Spencer Cohen, Book Three

tags: andrew-landon, bed, gay, happiness, happy, holding-hands, intimacy, intimate, lgbt, lgbtq, love, m-m-romance, mm-romance, sleep, spencer-cohen, sweet

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#22

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
― Dan Savage, American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

tags: bible, bible-interpretation, lgbt

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#23

“Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

tags: lgbt, sex, sexuality, sweet-talk

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#24

“I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the fact that my boyfriend was a pervert. He was lucky he was so cute.”
― J.M. Colail, Wes and Toren

tags: gay-romance, humor, lgbt, relationship

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#25

“I don’t check any particular box. I’ve never caught feelings for anyone because they were a male or a female. I feel for people because of who they are. Not what they are.”
― Tammy Ferebee, Outsiders

tags: bisexuality, diverse-characters, diversity, homosexuality, indigo, lgbt, powerful-words

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#26

“It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: first-kiss, lgbt, love, simon-spier, teen

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#27

“If you’re in doubt as to whether or not a question is inappropriate, here’s a helpful tip. Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable asking that question to a cisgender person. Generally speaking we as a society don’t around asking people about their private parts. They’re called private for a reason.”
― Ian Thomas Malone, The Transgender Manifesto

tags: lgbt, trans, transgender

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#28

“The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

tags: despair, gay, homosexuality, lgbt

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#29

“The strong women told the faggots that there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. The first is that we will get our asses kicked. The second is that we will win.

The faggots knew the first. Faggot ass-kicking is a time-honored sport of the men. But the faggots did not know about the second. They had never thought about winning before. They did not even know what winning meant. So they asked the strong women and the strong women said winning was like surviving, only better. As the strong women explained winning, the faggots were surprised and then excited. The faggots knew about surviving for they always had and this was going to be just plain better. That made ass-kicking different. Getting your ass kicked and then winning elevated the entire enterprise of making revolution.”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

tags: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, powerful-women, queer, revolution, women, women-empowerment

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#30

“We weren't made to be alone. We were made to love. And when we love, we automatically know God without trying to, because God is love. If we love as he made us to love—if we love with our hearts instead of our criteria—then we simply are love.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

tags: gay, lesbian, lgbt, queer-christians, sapphic

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