Itโs Pride Month bebes, and letโs get one thing out of the way right now โ every human being has the right and freedom to love who they want, be who they want to be, and live their lives the way they want to live.
Pride Month is not just about giving the limelight to the LGBTQIA community, itโs also about realizing the fact that they also deserve to live with respect, dignity, and safety, just like the rest of us. And through these Pride Month quotes, that is what we hope to achieve and propagate.
Whether you belong to the LGBTQIA community or not, what matters is understanding that this world is not just for cisgender people, itโs for them too. Love is love, and who you love shouldnโt be the reason for being persecuted, judged, and even punished, in certain instances.
Read these inspiring LGBTQ quotes, to feel not just inspired and empowered, but also seen, heard, and understood. These quotes about equality of love will make your heart feel full!
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50+ Best Pride Month Quotes To Celebrate Love And Equality
1. โWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, itโs curved like a road through mountains.โ โ Tennessee Williams
2. โWe need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.โ โ Bayard Rustin
3. โIt takes no compromise to give people their rights โฆ it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.โ โ Harvey Milk
4. โGender and sexuality are so fluid. Itโs OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. Itโs OK to take your time.โ โ Amandla Stenberg
5. โWhen all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.โ โ Barack Obama
6. โYou are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.โ โ Brene Brown
7. โWe have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.โ โ Sylvia Rivera
8. โThe only queer people are those who donโt love anybody.โ โ Rita Mae Brown
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9. โNature made a mistake, which I have corrected.โ โ Christine Jorgensen
10. โOpenness may not completely disarm prejudice, but itโs a good place to start.โ โ Jason Collins
11. โYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you donโt live the only life you have, you wonโt live some other life, you wonโt live any life at all.โ โ James Baldwin
12. โBeing born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, black female is.โ โ Lena Waithe
13. โWe should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.โ โ George Takei
14. โIโve been embraced by a new community. Thatโs what happens when youโre finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.โ โ Chaz Bono
15. โSo let me be clear: Iโm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.โ โ Tim Cook
16. โThe single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what youโve just told them.โ โ Rachel Maddow
17. โWhat I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What Iโm in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.โ โ Miley Cyrus
18. โYour judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person youโre pointing a finger at.โ โ Alaric Hutchinson
19. โPersonally, coming out was one of the most important things Iโve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadnโt even realized I was carrying.โ โ Sir Ian McKellen
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20. โAll of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more โ and no less โ heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.โ โ Tammy Baldwin
21. โJust be you, and thatโs going to be so much better than wishing to be anything else.โ โ Angel Haze
22. โLove demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.โ โ Jeanette Winterson
23. โYou donโt have to be gay to be a supporterโyou just have to be a human.โ โ Daniel Radcliffe
24. โFrom a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.โ โ Howard Dean
25. โThe fact is, Iโm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldnโt be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.โ โ Anderson Cooper
26. โTo be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhowโthis is a human offering that can border on miraculous.โ โ Elizabeth Gilbert
27. โThereโs nothing wrong with you. Thereโs a lot wrong with the world you live in.โ โ Chris Colfer
28. โThere will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.โ โ Larry Kramer
29. โIโm a young, bisexual woman, and Iโve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myselfโto my friends, to my family, to myselfโtrying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.โ โ Halsey
30. โThe richness, beauty, and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty, and vulnerability.โ โ Anthony Venn Brown
31. โEquality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.โ โ Barbara Gittings
32. โThe next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them, โA bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.โโ โ Brenda Howard
33. โLove is never wrong.โ โ Melissa Etheridge
34. โOur society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.โ โ Zachary Quinto
35. โIt is absolutely imperative that every human beingโs freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.โ โ Jรณhanna Sigurรฐardรณttir
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36. โEvery gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.โ โ Bob Paris
37. โI think itโs important for parents to educate themselves, too, and be open, and realizing that your children are their own person and if they may or may not act the way you want them to in terms of gender expression that thatโs OK.โ โ Laverne Cox
38. โWe deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.โ โ Elliot Page
39. โThis community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance, and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?โ โ Lady Gaga
40. โThe important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.โ โ Gore Vidal
41. โStonewall represented, absolutely, the first time that the LGBT community successfully fought back and forged an organized movement and community.โ โ Mark Segal
42. โThere will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.โ โ Larry Kramer
43. โIโm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.โ โ Pete Buttigieg
44. โSo while I might not want to constantly be asked about my sexuality and just be me, a big part of me is my love of women. So I guess Iโm talking about it until itโs no longer seen as something to talk about.โ โ Hayley Kiyoko
45. โOpenness may not completely disarm prejudice, but itโs a good place to start.โ โ Jason Collins
46. โโโOur community is not a monolith, thank goodness, any more than America itself is. I look forward to and will continue to work toward the day when America recognizes all of us as full and equal citizens.โ โ Cynthia Nixon
47. โA woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful.โ โ Drew Barrymore
48. โI realize that just living my truth of what I am, thereโs one less person to fight me in my own head.โ โ Raven Symone
49. โIโm a young, bisexual woman, and Iโve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself โ to my friends, to my family, to myself โ trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.โ โ Halsey
50. โThe more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more Iโm loving my body.โ โ Sam Smith
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51. โI donโt love just men. I love people. Itโs not about a gender. Itโs just about the spirit that exudes from that other person youโre with.โ โ Kesha
52. โI canโt give someone a playbook on how to come out, but I can help create a safe space for others to be heard and feel lovedโjust like the one my mom provided for me. I know who I am. Iโve lived in this body for the last 27 years, and Iโm very confident in the power that I hold.โ โ Mauree Turner
53. โI want to make sure that any young person or anyone really who is looking up to meโwho sees a glimpse of I am as a personโthat they see no shame, that they see pride, and that Iโm truly unabashed about the person that I am.โ โ Samira Wiley
Which of these famous pride month quotes resonate the most with you? Also which of these LGBT quotes about love make you realize that everyone has the right to love who they want, and without any negativity? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!
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