Devendra Banhart Quotes

We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It's not fair that they don't get to live an authentic life.

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

We need more gay in the world! I really believe that.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.

A person's safety and quality of life should not be conditioned upon who they love or how they identify.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.

I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.