Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people; vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, genr inty, sex characteristics
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TOP QUOT FROM BAYARD RT, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS LEAR
Celebrate Pri Month wh the spiratnal LGBTQ quot. Fd msag about hope and love om celebri, activists and gay rights trailblazers. * lgbt freedom quotes *
In his inic novel Gvanni’s Room, gay thor Jam Baldw mak a powerful statement about love. Karl Herich Ulrichs is known as one of the first gay men to publicly announce his sexual inty.
Durg his lifetime, Ulrichs wrote numero says discsg homosexualy and assertg that non-heterosexual orientatns are natural and blogil. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival. Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath.
“If you help elect more gay people, that giv a green light to all who feel disenanchised a green light to move forward.
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When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power.
“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be. “If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them.
In her time practicg law, she has dited her reer to helpg those who have been the victims of her untry’s harsh laws agast homosexualy. Organized relign has been one of the harsht crics of homosexualy, cg holy wrgs as evince that go agast God.
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn. * lgbt freedom quotes *
“The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay. Perry was relig for much of his life, but was trated by feelg unwele as a gay man.
Gay men were the group most ravaged by the disease, and the most feared and hated group bee of . In 2013, Tammy Baldw ma history by beg the first openly gay Senator the Uned Stat.
In 2014, Jason Colls ma history by beg the first male profsnal athlete to publicly intify himself as gay. It is often ed Christian muni to enurage queer youth to e relign to bat their homosexual sir.
Celebrate Pri Month wh the spiratnal LGBTQ quot. Fd msag about hope and love om celebri, activists and gay rights trailblazers. * lgbt freedom quotes *
June 28 marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, when members of the LGBTQ muny fought back when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York's Greenwich Village, 1969.
"—From the say "The Gay Athlete, " published Sports Illtrated, 2013"If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door. Savenok/Strger/Getty Imag"In light of Jamey's ath, beme clear to me an stant that livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * lgbt freedom quotes *
Our society needs to regnize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivol civil equaly for every gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr cizen of this untry. "—From In Search of Our Mothers' Garns: Womanist Prose, 1983"I'd like to see the gay revolutn get started, but there hasn't been any monstratn or anythg recently. When they don't see any actn they thk, 'Well, gays are all fotten now, they're worn out, they're tired.