Lgbt Quotes

“I'm worried I'll be mad forever."
"Then be mad forever," Bertie said.
He sounded unsure. "But I have so much anger."
"Because much has been done upon you," Sofie said. "The Nazis have made us scared of anger, made us believe that anger is bad. Anger is not bad. Anger is how we tell ourselves that we've been wronged, that we've been mistreated, and that it's not okay. Anger is a beautiful emotion. We just need to express it properly.”
― Milo Todd, The Lilac People

“Lee felt a charge of anger pass through his body. 'I'll make him pay for this somehow,' he thought. [...] Lee did not actually want retaliation. He felt a desperate need to maintain some special contact with Allerton.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“And when you became Denise, I told your colleagues, those clown comics; to fix their hearts or die.”
― David Lynch, Twin Peaks

“Will you let me come dear Susie - looking just as I do, my dress soiled and worn, my grand old apron, and my hair - Oh Susie, time would fail me to enumerate my appearance, yet I love you just as dearly as if I was e'er so fine, so you wont care, will you?”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“For I have come, not from obscurity into the momentary notoriety of crime, but from a sort of eternity of fame to a sort of eternity of infamy, and sometimes seem to myself to have shown, if indeed it required showing, that between the famous and the infamous there is but one step, if as much as one.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“There is no error more common than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of great tragedies share in the feelings suitable to the tragic mood: no error more fatal than expecting it of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I should've know all along that you were liggabit. (lgbt)
Really? how so? he whispered.
You ask so many damn questions. Normal boys don't ask so many questions.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“We're not going anywhere," Will said with unshakeable conviction, "because we don't come from anywhere. We're spontaneous events. We just appear in the middle of families. And we'll keep appearing. Even if the plague killed every homosexual on the planet, it wouldn't be extinction, because there's queer babies being born every minute. It's like magic." He grinned at the notion. "You know, that's exactly what it is. It's magic.”
― Clive Barker, Sacrament

“An imaginary hand projected with such force it seemed Allerton must feel the touch of ectoplasmic fingers caressing his ear, phantom thumbs smoothing his eyebrows, pushing the hair back from his face ... Lee felt the aching pain of desire in his lungs.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“In the dark theater Lee could feel his body pull toward Allerton, an amoeboid protoplasmic projection, straining with a blind worm hunger to enter the other's body, to breathe with his lungs, see with his eyes, learn the feel of his viscera and genitals.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“I wept a tear here, Susie - on purpose for you - because this "sweet silver moon" smiles in on me and Vinnie, and then it goes so far before it gets to you...”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Never mind the letter, Susie; you have so much to do; just write me every week one line, and let it be, "Emily, I love you," and I will be satisfied!”
― Emily Dickinson

“I broke every promise I ever made to you. I know that. And whether you believe it or not, I am sorry.”
― Heather Walter, The Crimson Crown

“Straight people,' Alec declared. 'Why can't they control themselves?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Drag, to Misty, was freedom. Freedom to wear whatever she wanted, to perform whatever she wanted, to be whoever she wanted. It was a superpower”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“Anybody who had the cool mind and cold heart to leave a box of poisoned chocolates might very well be extremely calm under pressure. Oh yes, a poisoned-chocolate murderer was a cruel murderer indeed”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“I do not know if I believe in God," Carmilla said. "Because it means he created a creature like me, only to condemn me to Hell from the start." I knew not if she referred to being a vampire or her habit of kissing women.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“When I first met you, I tried to picture how you'd look in a jockstrap.'
Thack smiled.
'Now,' said Michael, 'I wanna see you in pajamas.”
― Armistead Maupin, Significant Others

“It is heavy work to live without women's society & I would for rather while away an hour with this girl, who has nothing in the world to boast but good humor, than not flirt at all.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“She is my wife in honor & in love & why not acknowledge her such openly & at once? I am satisfied to have her mind, & my on, at ease. The chain is golden & shared with M---. I love it better than any liberty.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“Oh, fuck me with a rusty coat hanger covered in sriracha sauce.”
― Alexis Hall

“Mom looks up, asking the ceiling why I couldn't just be going around sneaking cigarettes and sneaking boys up to my room like a normal girl.

I say nothing.

Johnny asks my parents what decade they're from.

Dad states the year he was born and asks what that has to do with anything.

Mom says Johnny needs to shut up right now.”
― M-E Girard

“Darjeeling mornings always smelled like roasted corn and damp earth, like mist curling through the trees and secrets that never fully dried. - Boys Don’t Cry in Darjeeling”
― Nathan Li

“He just walked down the hill. Bag over shoulder. Sketchbook under his arm. Head high. Heart messy. And he didn’t know where he was going. Not really. But this time? That felt like enough.”
― Nathan Li , Boys Don’t Cry in Darjeeling: A Queer Coming-of-Age Story in the Queen of Hills

“Si vamos a arder en el infierno… ¡empecemos a arder desde ya, entonces! (Risas).
Yo solo creo que el verdadero infierno sería no amar.”
― Elena Coronel, La Cruz que no debimos cargar: "Amarse no era el pecado. Callarlo, sí."

“I love the unity symbolised by the rainbow, but we shouldn't forget why we wore a pink triangle for so many years. Oppression and homophobia are still a very real threat to LGBT+ people in this world. We must keep fighting for all our brothers and sisters.”
― Robert J Mott

“Sometimes now, almost two decades later, when I'm walking around New York, I'll pass a building that floods me with memories of a john or a trick that I turned in whatever apartment window I find myself staring up at. I'll stand on the sidewalk, looking into a window where "Jeff" once stood and made his ever-coveted hundred bucks. I can see him straining to carry his suitcases of worry up to another apartment to make another coin to put in his piggy bank of shame. And I can see him leaving again a half hour later, with a pep in his step from being a little bit richer, but with the glassy-eyed worry that he's ruining himself in the process. And I want to rush across traffic to this young version of myself, grab him, and look him directly in the eyes. First, he'll probably be terrified of this older, puffier, thicker walking portrait of Dorian Gray before him, but once he stops screaming at the ghoulish glimpse into his future, I want to hold him and tell him, "This will all be worth it.”
― Jeffery Self, Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I’ve Spent My Time

“It's all about creating an illusion, you see, if glamour's what you're after. You need shape and style. It doesn't really matter how cheap your outfit is for now. If you've got good hair and good shoes, you can carry it off”
― Holly Stars, Missing in Soho

“He just wanted a taste. God, he would trade eternity for a taste.”
― Beckett Krane, Chapel at Ender's Ridge

“When will you call me Laurie?” Decker’s hands stilled under the water as the preacher’s gentle, chapel-scarred hands brushed against his own. “When I know you.”
― Beckett Krane, Chapel at Ender's Ridge