Quotes for gays

LGBTQ+ quotes resonate with warmth, courage, and the beauty of being true to oneself. These words capture the strength to stay proud, the joy of acceptance, and the grave connections formed through desire. Each quote is a beacon of hope, reminding us that there is light in embracing who we are, and in standing as allies for those who do. Allow these voices inspire and uplift, offering strength to all who seek it.

LGBTQ+ Quotes on Love and Acceptance

It's always incorrect to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

Lady Gaga

No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.

Marsha P. Johnson

We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Elliot Page

If a transvestite doesn’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite, then nobody else is going to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite for them.

Marsha P. Johnson

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70+ Powerful Pride Month Quotes

In this upload, you’ll find 70+ Pride Month quotes for 2025! Identity festival Month happens each year during the month of June. By honoring Parade Month, your corporation will send an important message about its values to employees and the community.

This year, as part of your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, share the Celebration quotes below on your company’s social media channels or in your e-newsletter. You can motivate and enlighten your audiences while also starting an significant dialogue. Sharing these Pride quotes will also help Gay clients, employees, and stakeholders feel seen and welcomed.

As you share these Celebration quotes, remember to also take meaningful action to encourage the LGBTQ+ society. Consider planning a volunteer day, supporting a nonprofit serving the LGBTQ+ collective, or advocating for legislative change. After all, actions express louder than words. Sharing words of wisdom is just one part of a meaningful Identity campaign!

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Homosexuality Quotes

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“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are lgbtq+. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.'
'You noticed' said Simon.

'I consider of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' added Magnus.

'Please never say those words in front of my parents,' said Alec. 'Especially my father.'

'I thought your parents were okay with you, you know, coming out,' Simon said, leaning around Isabelle to watch at Alec, who was — as he often was — scowling, and pushing his floppy shadowy hair out of his eyes. Aside from the occasional exchange, Simon had never talked to Alec much. He wasn’t an easy person to acquire to know. But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec’s answer than he would have been otherwise.

'My mother seems to have recognized it,' Alec said. 'But my father — no, not really. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.'

Simon felt Isabelle tense next to him. 'Turned you gay?' She sounded incredulous. 'Alec, you didn’t tell me that.'

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Gay Men Quotes

“As lengthy as she lived Stephen never forgot her first impressions of the block known as Alec's—that meeting-place of the most miserable of all those who comprised the miserable army. That merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing haunt to which flocked the battered remnants of men whom their fellow-men had at last stamped under; who, despised of the world, must despise themselves beyond all aspire , it seemed, of salvation. There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry, timid yet defiant—and their eyes, Stephen never forgot their eyes, those haunted, tormented eyes of the invert.

Of all ages, all degrees of despondency, all grades of mental and physical ill-being, they must yet laugh shrilly from time to period, must yet tap their feet to the rhythm of music, must yet dance together in response to the band—and that dance seemed the Gyrate of Death to Stephen. On more than one hand was a grand, ornate ring, on more than one wrist a conspicuous bracelet; they wore jewellery that might only be worn by these men when they thus gathered together. At Alec's they could dare to give way to such tastes—what was left of themselves they beca

1. “Love him and let him treasure you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin

In his iconic novel Giovanni’s Room, gay author James Baldwin makes a powerful statement about love. He proclaims that sex and gender don’t matter; all that matters is that two people love each other. Nothing should stand in their way if they have love in their hearts. These words resonated with millions of people who felt appreciate their emotions were invalid because of the gender of the object of their love. With this quote, Baldwin assured them that it didn’t matter because love is love.

2. “If I wait for someone else to verify my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African activist and artist. She works primarily in photography and video. Despite her fame as an musician, Muholi identifies herself as an activist first. It is her intention to use her art to highlight the beauty and personality of black LGBTQ women: a community that she believes has been terribly underrepresented in all forms of art. So, instead of waiting for someone else to approve LGBT women of color, she took it upon herself to bring th