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"Be soft where the world is sharp. Be loud where it silences. Be exactly what they said you couldn’t, and then some."

— Unknown but undoubtedly fabulous

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns, than holding hands?

- Ernest Gaines

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“Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it’s destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.”

- Anthony Venn-Brown [love him or hate him]

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"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it."

-Voltaire

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“I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses.”

—Gloria Gaynor

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“Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.”

– Sir Ian McKellen

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“Being your true self is the most revolutionary act.” —

Unknown

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“Gayness is not a phase. It’s a full-season arc with character development, plot twists, and better fashion.”

- Anonymous Fabulous

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"I wanted to be even more authentic in my music and let people into my life. I'm much more confident now—in my music, my sexuality, the things that I believe I stand for."

-Lil Nas X

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"There are certain men who neither want to lead nor follow."

— Quentin Crisp

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"Give them pleasure—the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

— Alfred Hitchcock

Often overlooked, as he wasn't much of an actors director, Hitchcock’s queer-coded films explore tension, fear, and identity with eerie precision.

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"The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody."

— Rita Mae Brown

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"There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everyone wants to be loved." ~ Boy George

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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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"We need to stop dehumanizing people in the name of religion, in the name of whatever it is."

- Cynthia Nixon

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"No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.“

- Robert Plant

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“I’m as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”

Freddie Mercury

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"There are worse things in life than kissing boys."

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”

— Barack Obama

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“Pride is about being bold, beautiful, and unapologetically you.” – Jamie Sutherland

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"I am proud that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt."

-Karl Heinrich Ulrich

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“Fears are not facts.” — Chaz Bono

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"Queerness is the art of defying expectations and making them fall in love with it."

-Anon

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"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does."

-Oscar Wilde

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"It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly."

-Jason Bateman

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“The only thing more important than being yourself is loving yourself.” – Troye Sivan

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“There’s no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it.”

— Tan France

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“I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.”

Björk

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“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.” —River Phoenix

August 23 1970
October 31 1993