Lgbtqia Quotes

“What do you say when The Girl tells you that you're The Girl to her?”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“God, Shall I compare thee to an icebox pie? Couldn't be gayer if she tried.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“It's not just about us. It's about those who'll come after us. If I need to pick up a damn brick like our lord and savior Marsha P. Johnson, then that's what I'll do.”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“There have to be trans extraordinaries. Do you think we'll get to meet them?"
"Probably," Jazz said, "I've personally met an absurd amount of queer extraordinaire."
"Poor straight people, they really don't get to have much. Except for fake white Jesus, do they?"
They took a moment of silence for the heterosexuals of the world. When enough time had passed (six seconds--straights didn't need that much sympathy), Nick clapped his hands and said, "Okay! I think I'm ready to do this.”
― T.J. Klune, Flash Fire

“People don't understand AIDS," I said.
"They understand just fine," Celia said. "They just think that he deserves it because of how he got it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I wondered how it would feel to be touched and not be afraid.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“It's been hard and messy and scary. I want you guys to care about it and what it changes for me, but without it changing us.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

“In the inmost recesses of consciousness,
The wound opening inwards,
The spirit too proud to admit an injury,
Incessantly grazed and torn again
By the insensitive, the enemy that hates
Difference, quality that escapes submission
To common complacency, impure hypocrisy-
That would annihilate what is uncommon,
Challenging their meanness, their lack of standards
With something electric and alive, a vibrancy
That offers not a new Heaven and a new Earth
But life, more life and light-
To be rejected.

- The Parting”
― A.L. Rowse, Poems of Deliverance

“I didn’t want to swim in the lovely, clear pools of his eyes unless I’d been invited to”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“For once, the rumors made me into the “victim,” when they could have easily made me into the “whore.” I wondered what makes people decide whether you’re one or the other. Either way, nobody really wants to know the truth.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“One day you look at the world with eyes full of wonder, then suddenly you lose yourself in your thoughts, and I… I find myself wishing you would find your way back through me.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“I loved him. I loved him in a clumsy, ridiculous way, but that was unmistakably love; a feeling I had craved for so long, I’d almost lost hope. It made perfect sense that it was James who gifted it to me.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“His skin was as soft as a ballad, booty round and just right, body built like a baseballer who lived on empanadas and chilaquiles.”
― Diriye Osman, The Butterfly Jungle

“This man was sexually attracted to MALES!”
― Abduco Chimpo

“I liked how our minds seemed to travel in parallel, how we instantly inferred what words the other was toying with but at the last moment held back”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, and will do anything for you, just say the word.”
― André Aciman

“I was incapable of resisting and would never want to resist, no matter what he did or asked me to do”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Don’t let him be someone else when he’s away. Don’t let him be someone I’ve never seen before. Don’t let him have a life other than the life I know he has with us, with me”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well together, there is nothing more I want. You make me like who I am, who I become when you’re with me”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“There was nothing but truth between us now”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Roberto didn’t say a word, but our fingers intertwined. He held my hand tightly and I almost cried as I realized that was the most intimate gesture I had ever shared with another person in my whole life.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“James looked at me with glossy eyes and parted lips, and I just knew I’d die if I didn’t kiss him now. I tried to fight it, I tried to think, analyze and rationalize, but I concluded that all the facts and words and promises in the world didn’t mean shit and all that ever mattered was sharing this, right now, with him.”
― Elen Chase, When we were sea and stars

“It's all about the colors, Baby!”
― Grey Forge LeFey

“Freedom starts when you are proud of who you are. As long you are not embracing and expressing who you are or your identity . You will never be free, wherever you are or no matter what you do.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“In fact, we, the LGBTQ community, have always been here. We were required to lead invisible lives out of necessity. We loved who we loved in the background of society because it was too dangerous to do otherwise.”
― Gayla Turner, Don't You Dare: Uncovering Lost Love

“Ella warned Ruby, "Let me tell you, the life lead is not an easy one. There are many dangers in the world for us - it's dangerous if other people find out because of what they might do to us. Some will want to hurt us or put us into mental institutions. Some will want to get rid of us altogether. Others will try to 'cure' us by forcing us into marriage, thinking that all we need is a 'good man.' Let me assure you, sweet lady, there is no cure for what ails us, because we are not ill.”
― Gayla Turner, Don't You Dare: Uncovering Lost Love

“It was at that point that it occurred to me I did not have a choice about who I loved, but I did have a choice about which direction those next two steps would take me in.”
― Gayla Turner, Don't You Dare: Uncovering Lost Love

“In a way, it was like peeling an onion, only this onion got hotter.”
― M.D. Neu, TAD

“I was willing to be anything people told me to be. I didn’t mind that I was dying inside because I didn’t know how to live any other way. But how do you learn to breathe, then opt to be suffocated day in and day out?”
― Emery Lee