Queer Rights Quotes

Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.

I was once involved in a same-sex marriage. There was the same sex over and over and over.

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of these things.

Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.

When 'Drag Race' first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the show has evolved to reflect America's changing relationship to queer rights and acceptance.

I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right.

The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always a story of, like, very sad, usually ended up with somebody dying, and it made the idea of being queer or different really scary, actually.

When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.

The gay scene here has become so visible partly out of need. The community here can be so oppressive it almost creates the need for a thriving gay and lesbian community.

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

What I would love is for a normalization of queer characters on TV.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated.

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.