Gus Kenworthy Quotes

It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.

I think life is easier if you're straight.

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

Pervasive 'whites-only' policies and hateful narratives could not be further from the values that underpin our Armed Forces: those of integrity, respect for others, and having the bravery to do the right thing.

We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.

Hopefully I can play a role where I'm not stigmatized to just being a trans woman.

I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met.

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.

Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?

Nothing but courage can guide life.

I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I've been very, very lucky that I've been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We're supposed to all have that right.

There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation, for our right to control our bodies. But at the same time as we're doing that, we have to also be fighting for the rights of trans women and standing up for them and making sure that we're always providing platforms for them and listening to their concerns in solidarity.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.