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Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- RELIG LEARS' QUOT ON LGBT PEOPLE, GAY MARRIAGE, AND HOMOSEXUALY
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Read all of the quot to get spired and never fet to spread love! 1. TAMMY BALDWIN // FIRST OPENLY GAY U.S. SENATOR KRIS CONNOR/GETTY IMAGES "There will not be a magic day when we wake up and 's now okay to exprs ourselv publicly. We make that day by dog thgs publicly until ’s simply the way th * gay leadership 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.
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.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay leadership quotes *
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.
"—From an terview Out of the Closets: Voic of Gay Liberatn, 1972"Our strategy is how we pe—how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom, daily cidg/riskg who is we n ll an ally, ll a iend (whatever that person's sk, sex, or sexualy). The fact that many Amerins nsir a disease says more about them than do about homosexualy. "—From a CNN terview wh Anrson Cooper, 2013"Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.
In his inic novel Gvanni’s Room, gay thor Jam Baldw mak a powerful statement about love.
RELIG LEARS' QUOT ON LGBT PEOPLE, GAY MARRIAGE, AND HOMOSEXUALY
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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. 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.