50+ Inspiring LGBT Quotes to Empower and Celebrate Pride

"“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s OK.”"

- Laverne Cox

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

- Audre Lorde

"It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist."

- Laverne Cox

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, because we were born this way."

- Lady Gaga

"Darling, I want my gay rights now."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

- James Baldwin

"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

"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

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

- Harvey Milk

"It takes no compromise to give people their rights… It takes no political deal to give people freedom."

- Harvey Milk

"To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act. And I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life."

- Lena Waithe

"Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein

"I once worried that there was no place for trans people like me to participate in any way in our politics. Since coming out, though, I’ve seen that change is possible and I’ve learned that the only things that are truly impossible are the things we don’t try. You can run, you can win and you can serve."

- Sarah McBride

"Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself."

- Megan Rapinoe

"It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world."

- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

"How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?"

- Harvey Milk

"I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive."

- Elliot Page

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

- James Baldwin

"You are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay."

- Laverne Cox

"Love isn’t a choice. It’s a recognition. It’s a feeling. You fall in love with the person, not their gender, not their race, not their religion."

- Becky Wade

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."

- Audre Lorde

"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

"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

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

- Elliot Page

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Marsha P. Johnson

"Love recognizes no barriers."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"With ignorance comes fear, from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance."

- Kathleen Patel

"Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal."

- Connor Franta

"History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"It’s about finding your values, and committing to them. It’s about finding your North Star. It’s about making choices. Some are easy. Some are hard. And some will make you question everything."

- Tim Cook

"Married is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly."

- Edith Windsor

"It’s just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let’s start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."

- Billie Jean King

"Folks who were willing to endure bullying and taunts, and stayed strong, and came to believe in themselves and who they were, and slowly made an entire country realize that love is love."

- Barack Obama

"We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way."

- Larry Kramer

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

"I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better."

- Brittney Griner

"The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body."

- Sam Smith

"I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that’s icing on the cake."

- Jonathan Van Ness

"It takes a little bit of bravery to step out, to be like, okay, I don’t look like anybody else around here. I am making the conscious decision to present myself the way I want to today."

- Hunter Schafer

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

- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

"Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal."

- Arsham Parsi

"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival."

- Audre Lorde

"Who you are is beautiful and amazing."

- Laverne Cox

"Hope will never be silent."

- Harvey Milk

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

- Barack Obama

"Love is never wrong."

- Melissa Etheridge

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do."

- Brené Brown

"We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation."

- Ban Ki-moon

"To realize a world of equality and dignity for all, we will have to change laws and policies; we will also have to change hearts and minds."

- Rick Parnell

"The world has caught up with me and I’m a living witness that dreams do come true, even if they aren’t the ones you start out with."

- Billy Porter

"If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised a green light to move forward."

- Harvey Milk

"I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!"

- Sylvia Rivera

"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

"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

"When you are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … Someone has to do this."

- Alice Nkom

"AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one."

- Larry Kramer

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

"Love is a rebellion. As an act of resistance against everything that tries to keep us apart."

- Alok Vaid-Menon

"We built a castle out of all the bricks they threw at us."

- Hayley Kiyoko

"It’s not about making a statement. It’s about living your life authentically and hopefully inspiring others to do the same."

- Laverne Cox

"This is for the ones who never gave up. The ones who carried dreams of love bigger than anyone thought possible and who made it possible. The ones who showed up so we could show out, today and every day."

- Mercedes Lucero

"When the world doesn’t show up the way we need it to, we show up for each other. Always."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you."

- Chris Colfer

"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

"Every single American — gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender — every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition."

- Barack Obama

"While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible."

- Anderson Cooper

"That nothing here is promised, not one day. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. Now fill the world with music, love and pride."

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

"Family belongs to community, and community takes its cues from family. We need to go back to real community engagement that sees us as people. We need to take back our lives by engaging our families and educating our communities."

- Beverley Ditsie

"Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren’t on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful."

- Miley Cyrus

"I am a firm believer that you don’t achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand."

- Greg Louganis

"When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"I see each and every one of you. The things that make us different, those are our superpowers — every day when you walk out the door and put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if we weren’t in it."

- Lena Waithe

"Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard."

- Harvey Milk

"The next generation is so far advanced over us ... I love that a lot of younger people now come out that would never have come out in the old days. Of course, they are born into a community already. They just have to discover it, whereas we were still building it."

- Edith Windsor

"All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words."

- Harvey Milk

"Progress is unimaginably difficult, dangerous, always at risk, always made by people with only partial vision."

- Larry Kramer

"How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?"

- Marsha P. Johnson

"For me, the transgender thing is the reality of my life. It’s the reality of my existence and it’s something that I’ve come to believe is beautiful about me."

- Laverne Cox

"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"We are powerful because we have survived."

- Audre Lorde

"I see your true colors shining through / I see your true colors and that’s why I love you / So, don’t be afraid to let them show / Your true colors / True colors are beautiful / Like a rainbow."

- Cyndi Lauper

"There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are."

- Tammy Baldwin

"Of course, attitudes change, but only because brave people like Ellen [DeGeneres] jump into the fire to make them change. And if I hadn’t seen her on TV, I would have thought, ‘I could never be on TV. They don’t let LGBT people on TV.’ And more than that, I would have gone on thinking that I was an alien and that I maybe didn’t even have a right to be here."

- Kate McKinnon

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act."

- Janet Mock

"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

"All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality."

- Andreja Pejic

"When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit."

- Janet Mock

"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

"There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own."

- Larry Kramer

"A long time ago I asked myself, ‘Do I want to be right, or do I want to be kind?’. I opted for kind."

- Jane Lynch

"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 Parris

"I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity."

- Selisse Berry

"I think the biggest revolution in the world will be in the hearts and minds of the people."

- Harvey Milk

"A lot of my work is to stay grounded, is to stay spiritual. It is to disconnect from what other people say about me, but also to try and be connected to the joy and the love."

- Laverne Cox

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"We struggle and fight for our joy — an unreserved and unapologetic joy that springs from our ability to live as we are. It’s a joy worth fighting for and it’s this joy that links all of our struggles together."

- Lady Phyll

"What I liked about the rainbow is that it fits all of us. It’s all the colors. It represents all the genders. It represents all the races. It’s the rainbow of humanity."

- Gilbert Baker

"The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability."

- Anthony Venn Brown

"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

"You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets."

- Harvey Milk

"We are all one — and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way."

- Bayard Rustin

"I’m not missing a moment of this — it’s the revolution!"

- Sylvia Rivera

"When are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … someone has to do this."

- Alice Nkom

"There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in."

- Chris Colfer

"Fears are not facts."

- Chaz Bono

"Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein

"If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself."

- Zanele Muholi

"Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start."

- Jason Collins

"Nature made a mistake which I have corrected, and I am now your daughter."

- Christine Jorgensen

"Love is a battlefield, but it’s a battle worth fighting."

- Janelle Monáe

"I’m not sure what’s more dangerous, me with a microphone or me with a girlfriend."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Love is the only thing that can turn an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"We are all born naked, and the rest is drag."

- RuPaul

"You have to be willing to fight for your happiness, and fight for your rights, and keep fighting."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"We are all born free and equal. Period."

- Laverne Cox

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do."

- David Wilkerson

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."

- Barbara De Angelis

"Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow."

- John Lennon

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

- Robert Frost

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

- Tom Wolfe

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Love is the whole and more than all."

- E. E. Cummings

"That is — your friend? "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved."

- Madeline Miller

"Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight."

- Casey McQuiston

"We're sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes."

- Pete Wentz

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

- Alice Oseman

"This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?" What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?"

- Simone Elkeles

"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."

- Jess C Scott

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

- Rita Mae Brown

"Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. "Nico, we need to have another talk about your people skills." "Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble." Will turned to me. "I apologize for my boyfriend." Nico rolled his eyes. "Could you not―" "Would you prefer special guy?" Will asked. "Or significant other?" "Significant annoyance, in your case," Nico grumbled"

- Rick Riordan

"Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal."

- Connor Franta

"Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral. And it's relentless."

- Leah Raeder

"Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting."

- Paul Monette

"I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort."

- E.M. Forster

"There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male."

- Nancy Garden

"Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story."

- Adam Silvera

"What sexual preference do you hope she has? Happiness. Isnt that cool?"

- Francesca Lia Block

"I am not here to entertain straight people."

- Sarah Schulman

"Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you."

- P.C. Cast

"But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup. As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed."

- Jeanette Winterson

"It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that."

- Connor Franta

"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."

- David Levithan

"I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing"

- Connor Franta

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

- Quentin Crisp

"I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone."

- Adam Silvera

"This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate."

- Tyler Oakley

"If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a coming-out party without people thinking I just want attention. I wouldn't have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People wouldn't say I'm 'just a slut' or 'faking it' or 'undecided' or 'confused.' I'm not confused. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm allowed to love. Love doesn't fit into boxes like that. It's blurry, slippery, quantum. It's only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible."

- Leah Raeder

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

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live."

- bell hooks

"I understood a lot of things differently as I came out to myself.I stepped closer to understanding feminism, and black power, and the pride of working class people in unions..."

- adrienne maree brown

"You belong in this world."

- Connie Merasty

"You never have to “fit in” to know that you belong."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Every part of you matters. The world is better when you are your authentic self— bold, beautiful, radiant—on full display. I see every shade of you, and I couldn’t love you more."

- Teju Abiola

"I’d never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange."

- Cynthia Nixon

"Transcendent, transformative, transtastic, transtastical, transchanted, transmendous… That’s you to a T. Love you!"

- Sara Quenzer

"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers."

- Bayard Rustin

"Who wants to FIT IN when you can FINESSE. Stay true to you, my friend."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Take up space. Today and every day."

- Mercedes Lucero

"True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend."

- Faye Hall

"…you are loved."

- Meghan Craig

"Here’s to all the years of being who you are. Flawlessly and unapologetically!"

- Courtney Taylor

"Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"It is dangerous to be a storyteller, it has always been dangerous to be a storyteller. We must be brave and we must be strong."

- Kai Cheng Thom

"Transformation can feel like a lot to handle, but through every part of the process, remember that you’re so loved, so believed-in, and so rooted-for."

- Sara Quenzer

"The future is nonbinary. You’re just ahead of the curve."

- Jordy Byrd

"Beyond binary. Beautiful truth. Biggest love."

- Clare Gowney

"Together, we’ll change the world. Together, we’re unstoppable."

- Cat Hollyer

"I love you beyond the binary."

- Jordy Byrd

"We are all a mosaic of possibility, made up of both light and shadow."

- Chaz Bono

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Nothing warms my heart like community. So glad we have each other."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Gender is who you are, and sexuality is who you want."

- C.N. Lester

"The future is filled with all things queer. Because that’s the kind of joy we’re manifesting."

- Mercedes Lucero

"The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay."

- Troy Perry

"It is against this God who kills that we are fighting and resisting."

- Alexya Salvador

"We are owning our future… believe that."

- Mercedes Lucero

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

- Ernest J. Gaines

"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."

- Bayard Rustin

"Keep rising in your Black queer pride, owning it and bringing enough shine to light up the entire world."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected."

- Christine Jorgensen

"Black LGBTQ Pride is a celebration of life and love."

- Courtney Taylor

"Black, queer, and a woman? Yaas, chile, that’s a beautifully complex blessing right there."

- Courtney Taylor

"Love you. Love celebrating every step toward the you that you were meant to be."

- Anna Wenner

"Love stories are more epic with two heroines."

- Jordy Byrd

"Them: Pick a Side. Us: Por Que No Los Dos? Love the person you are so much, friend."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Gentle reminder: Let what no longer serves you just shed tf away. Because you’re vibrant as hell."

- Sara Quenzer

"Alike in some ways, different in others, but still family… deeply, sweetly family."

- Cheryl Hawkinson

"Being LGBTQ…is just being."

- Matt Gowen

"Here’s to growing a little bit every single day but doing it in your own damn way."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Genderful and wonderful."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Cinnamon rolls, not gender roles. Your amazingness needs no explanation."

- Jordy Byrd

"Why break hearts when you can break binaries?"

- Mercedes Lucero

"You’re wayyyyy too sweet for labels, honey. And I love to see it!"

- Sara Quenzer

"Our love makes every day a celebration."

- Andrew Blackburn

"Different lives, different stories… Same hope, same love."

- Stacey Donovan

"Love is infinite."

- Dan Taylor

"We love our way and live our way… and for me, it’s the BEST way."

- Amy Trowbridge-Yates

"We’re Black, Queer, and Beautiful!"

- Jake Gahr

"Because of the Queens who came before us our crowns shine brilliantly today."

- Jake Gahr

"We’re each other’s people."

- Melvina Young

"Let your flag fly. It’s a wonderful thing seeing you be you."

- Mariya Zilberman

"In all the universe, there’s only one you."

- Anna Wenner

"With the imposition of colonization, Christianity, residential schools and ‘the Sixties Scoop,’ a lot of those [Indigenous] teachings of gender diversity have been lost..."

- Dr. James Makokis

"Just a reminder that you’re exactly where you should be."

- Melissa Woo

"You are like a rainbow of awesome!"

- Valerie Stark

"Make your own story. It’s bound to be a good one."

- Andrew Blackburn

"Your sole responsibility while you’re here on earth is to leave footprints behind that others will follow. And that’s a big responsibility."

- Charlotte Nolin

"I love all that you are and all that you’re becoming."

- Hallmark Editorial Staff

"Love getting hyped about all the ways you’re you."

- Sara Quenzer

"Staying flawless like it’s NBD."

- Mercedes Lucero

"Sounds gay. I’m in."

- Anna Wenner

"Queer AF. Just as it should be."

- Jordy Byrd

"Checked my mood ring. Yep, still gay. (It’s my best mood. You understand.)"

- Mercedes Lucero

"Here, queer, full of pride."

- Radius Burik

"Live like you."

- Andrew Blackburn

"Let’s get one thing straight… Just kidding. Let’s be gay!"

- Jordy Byrd

"You’re so flaming, even the sun be like “DAMN.”"

- Radius Burik

"The things we know about residential school — about segregating girls and boys, naming things so clearly as girls and boys, and nothing in between — that is a fracturing of a worldview."

- Jennifer Lafontaine

"People who don’t get you aren’t worthy of your fabulousness."

- Radius Burik

"You are straight fire. Well, minus the “straight” part."

- Joey Benevento

"People used to think I was a monster. And for a long time, I believed them. But after a while, you learn to ignore the names that people call you and you just trust who you are."

- Shrek

"PRIDE is a year-round look"

"You are so parade-worthy!"

"Be the you you’ve always been, proudly."

"Stand for love."

"The best thing about love is that it’s always a shared experience."

"In a world of black and white, you are my rainbow."

"Love wins."

"Our love is a tapestry woven with laughter, tears, intimacy, and shared dreams. It’s a connection that goes beyond the physical, a meeting of souls that brings us closer with each passing day."

"Love is too beautiful to be hidden in a closet."

"Love is love."

"Be who you are."

"The future is trans."

"Celebrate Trans Pride."

"Love yourself."

"Trans rights are human rights"

"Let's get loud, let's get proud."

"This is for the dancing queens."

"Love is not a crime."

"Love knows no gender, and neither does my heart."

"She/Her, He/Him, They/Them. Us."

"They and them and everyone."

"Everyone is welcome."

"Be proud."

"Not gonna hide my pride."

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

"The bravest thing you can be is yourself."

"Equality."

"Our love is a beautiful symphony, composed of notes of acceptance and harmony."

"True love sees no race, color, or creed; it only sees the beauty of the heart."

"Love is not a choice, but it is the most beautiful thing that can happen to you."

"Be you Do you Celebrate you"

"Today, I hope you know that you’re more than just seen…"

"Love always."