David Furnish Quotes

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.

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.

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

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

If the world is to be put together it will not be done by large organizations. It will be done by millions of small organizations…. Participation: That’s what is going to save the human race.

It always feels good to be a part of something you think could actually impact human beings.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

'Drag Race' is a movement. I'll be forever grateful that I left my legacy.

I was born into the most amazing family an underdog could be born into, and I was born into the LGBTQ community. And what a beautiful community we are. The art, the music, the fashion, the brains, the fight, the survival skills, the diversity, male, female, non-binary, Gender Non Conforming, cis, trans, femme, and all races.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!