Gay And Lesbian Quotes

“Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.”
― Nicolas G. Janovsky, Gay: A New Path Forward

“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years”
― Tim Cummings, Orphans

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”
― Tim Cummings, Orphans

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.

-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")”
― Tim Cummings

“Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?”
― Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will always have food on the table. They are never in short supply.”
― David Demchuk, The Bone Mother

“There's nothing gay about living life straight”
― Paul B. Tripp, Choking On Silence: A Memoir

“Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.”
― David Demchuk, The Bone Mother

“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.”
― Tina Alexis Allen

“There is so much joy in the world,
and I have bled to find the sun.”
― K.N. Clem, Open Veins

“When are you going to get a fella?" Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. "I have one who wants to take me kissing, but I think I should wait for you to have one."
Rose flushes. "I don't think I'll ever have a fella."
"Why not?" Lily bristles. "We're plenty pretty."
"I don't like the look of them," Rose says.
Lily purses her lips at the dance floor, appraising.
After a moment long, Rose says, "Any of them."
Lily looks at her a long time, as Rose tries not to hyperventilate.
Then Lily shrugs and says, "Well, then it's you who should have learned to lead, isn't it?" and when Rose clasps Lily's hand, she clasps it back.
It's the closest they've ever been.”
― Genevieve Valentine, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

“Silent as shadows. Bold as night. Calm as wind. One shall die tonight.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“He wasn’t going to read this book. Who had time for books about straight people?”
― 'Nathan Burgoine, Three Left Turns to Nowhere

“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.”
― David Demchuk, The Bone Mother

“Once, within the dark threads of her existence, love was the reason she fought through all her troubles. Now it was the same reason that drove her toward her uncertain fate. She would welcome her own death once everything was over.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“Ayara was no saviour tonight. No, she wasn’t a saviour at all.
Ayara Drogon was a Shadow Assassin and she was the personification of death.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“She loved her mother, but she loved Kestrel more than her own life.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“On the table behind the built-in bar stood opened bottles of gin, bourbon, scotch, soda, and other various mixers. The bar itself was covered with little delicacies of all descriptions: chips, dips, and little crackers and squares of bread laced with the usual dabs of egg salad and sardine paste. There was a platter of delicious fried chicken wings and a pan of potato-and-egg salad dressed with vinegar. Bowls of lives and pickles surrounded the main dishes, along with trays of red crabapples and little sweet onions on toothpicks. But the centerpiece of the whole table was a huge platter of succulent and thinly sliced roast beef set into an underpan of cracked ice. Upon the beige platter each slice of rare meat had been lovingly laid out and individually folded up into a vulval pattern with a tiny dab of mayonnaise at the crucial apex. The pink-brown folded meat around the pale cream-yellow dot formed suggestive sculptures that made a great hit with all the women present. Petey– at whose house the party was being given and the creator of the meat sculptures– smilingly acknowledged the many compliments on her platter with a long-necked graceful nod of her elegant dancer’s head.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Decir que la realidad es objetiva es un error. Y para descubrir el porqué, habría primero que entender cómo es que el amor se parece a un elefante.”
― L. V. VELÁSQUEZ, El amor como un elefante: Reliquum

“A quienes se empeñan en creer que el amor es sencillo, les aseguro que no lo pues el amor es como un elefante en un cuarto oscuro”
― L. V. VELÁSQUEZ, El amor como un elefante: Reliquum

“Somos presa de cada secreto que pretendemos ocultar”
― L. V. VELÁSQUEZ, El amor como un elefante: Reliquum

“Ningún corazón es capaz de entender la razón de sus heridas”
― L. V. VELÁSQUEZ, El amor como un elefante: Reliquum

“No matter how mean you are to me, I will still be kind to you. I'm a people-pleaser, something I need to change.”
― Ashton Trinh

“Healing means finding the courtage to create new moments of joy”
― Lee Quail, Love, Planes, & Heartache

“I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.”
― Janet Ryan, Between The Lesbian Sheets: An Interracial Love Story

“Kesha's presence struck me instantly, tall and regal, her mocha skin seeming to glow with intricately coiled dreadlocks. She carried herself like royalty, and in that moment, I knew I'd never seen anyone more captivating. A fierce desire took root in me, undeniable and raw. I wanted her badly”
― Janet Ryan, Between The Lesbian Sheets: An Interracial Love Story