It’s Pride Month bebes, and let’s get one thing out of the way right now – 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, it’s 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, it’s for them too. Love is love, and who you love shouldn’t 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. “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” – Tennessee Williams
2. “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” – Bayard Rustin
3. “It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” – Harvey Milk
4. “Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.” – Amandla Stenberg
5. “When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” — Barack Obama
6. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown
7. “We 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.” – Sylvia Rivera
8. “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” – Rita Mae Brown
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9. “Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected.” – Christine Jorgensen
10. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” – Jason Collins
11. “You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.” – James Baldwin
12. “Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, black female is.” — Lena Waithe
13. “We 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.” – George Takei
14. “I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” – Chaz Bono
15. “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” – Tim Cook
16. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.” – Rachel Maddow
17. “What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” – Miley Cyrus
18. “Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.” – Alaric Hutchinson
19. “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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20. “All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more — and no less — heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.” – Tammy Baldwin
21. “Just be you, and that’s going to be so much better than wishing to be anything else.” – Angel Haze
22. “Love 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.” – Jeanette Winterson
23. “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” – Daniel Radcliffe
24. “From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.” – Howard Dean
25. “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.” – Anderson Cooper
26. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
27. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” – Chris Colfer
28. “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” – Larry Kramer
29. “I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself—to my friends, to my family, to myself—trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.” – Halsey
30. “The richness, beauty, and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty, and vulnerability.” – Anthony Venn Brown
31. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” – Barbara Gittings
32. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them, ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” – Brenda Howard
33. “Love is never wrong.” – Melissa Etheridge
34. “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.” – Zachary Quinto
35. “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.” – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
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36. “Every 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.” – Bob Paris
37. “I think it’s 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 that’s OK.” – Laverne Cox
38. “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.” – Elliot Page
39. “This 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?” – Lady Gaga
40. “The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.” – Gore Vidal
41. “Stonewall represented, absolutely, the first time that the LGBT community successfully fought back and forged an organized movement and community.” – Mark Segal
42. “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” – Larry Kramer
43. “I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.” – Pete Buttigieg
44. “So 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 I’m talking about it until it’s no longer seen as something to talk about.” – Hayley Kiyoko
45. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” – Jason Collins
46. “Our 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.” – Cynthia Nixon
47. “A woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful.” – Drew Barrymore
48. “I realize that just living my truth of what I am, there’s one less person to fight me in my own head.” – Raven Symone
49. “I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself — to my friends, to my family, to myself — trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.” – Halsey
50. “The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body.” – Sam Smith
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51. “I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.” – Kesha
52. “I can’t give someone a playbook on how to come out, but I can help create a safe space for others to be heard and feel loved—just like the one my mom provided for me. I know who I am. I’ve lived in this body for the last 27 years, and I’m very confident in the power that I hold.” – Mauree Turner
53. “I want to make sure that any young person or anyone really who is looking up to me—who sees a glimpse of I am as a person—that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am.” – 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!
