Gay Quote: Frank Kameny

Photo thanks to the Guardian. It is taken fron his obituary in the Guardian, to which there is a link below.
“Dr. Frank Kameny is widely hailed as one of the most prominent figures of the United States LGBTQ rights movement. …

In 1971, Kameny became the first openly gay candidate for the US Congress when he ran in the District of Columbia’s first election for a non-voting Congressional delegate. After his defeat Kameny and his campaign organization created the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Washington, DC, an organization that continues to lobby government and press the case for equal rights.”

The following is one of his many quotes:

“The person who really needs the psychotherapy (…) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist’s office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.”

[Source: News 18.]

Dr. Kameny died in 2011. Here is his obituary in the Guardian.

Gay Quote: Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

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“You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.”
Some of us are activists on the streets and in the halls of politics, and some of us are activists in the boardroom. If you have a keen mind for business, then stay out of the streets and halls of politics and impact business as an LGBTQ leader. Others will thank and follow you.

With every relay race, there’s the opportunity to shine as an individual and as a team. Every day there’s the opportunity for us to take the baton from another LGBTQ leader and shine for ourselves and our community. Will you be the next LGBTQ business leader? [Source: Forbes.]

Humorous Gay Quote

Source : Dear Straight People. With thanks.

The Late Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, Gay, Mormon Vietnam War Veteran

“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” – Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, former U.S. Air Force sergeant. [Source: Each Other.]
Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He was a fierce advocate of LGBT rights and fought to end discrimination of sexuality. Matlovich was also a Latter-day Saint and found himself at odds with his religion and sexuality. [Read the full article here.]

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Funny Gay Quote

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“ Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up ” – Jet Mykles
With thanks to Jet Mykles for this great and funny gay quote.

Gay Quotes : Tammy Baldwin – First Openly Gay US Senator

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“In 2013, Tammy Baldwin made history by becoming the first openly gay Senator in the United States. In her speech at the Millennium March for Equality, she spoke to LGBTQ folks, encouraging them to be out and proud. In this quotation, she states that the only way to normalize non-heterosexual orientations is for the queer community to act like they are normal, because they are.” – Tammy Baldwin [Source: HUMAN RIGHTS CAREERS, with thanks.]

Gay Quote : Desmond Tutu

"I'd choose hell over a homophobic heaven" — Desmond Tutu
With thanks to Your Tango and Pinterest for this great quote.

Gay Quote: Alex Sanchez on the Overwhelming Pressures on Gay Teens

With thanks to Google Images and Queer Culture Chats for this quotation and image of Alex Sanchez, who is a gay author specialising in writing “queer themed novels for teens”. Wikipedia: Alex Sanchez.

Gay Quotes : Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe: [Source of photo IMDb and Google Images.]
”Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.” – Daniel Radcliffe [Source: Brainy Quote]

Gay Quotes : Arsham Parsi on Being Gay in Iran and Refugees

“Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal.” – Arsham Parsi
Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee living in Canada in exile, has made it his mission to help LGBTQ people living in Iran: a nation where acts of homosexuality are punishable by flogging or even death. In the above quotation, Parsi seeks the assistance of LGBTQ people living in Western nations, providing a powerful reminder that while things are slowly improving in the west, there are still queer people all over the world who live every day afraid for their very lives. [Source: HUMAN RIGHTS CAREERS]

Thanks go to Google Images and A Wider Bridge for the photo above.

Gay Quote : Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir on Gay Rights

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Minister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered these words during a speech at a 2014 Pride festival. In this speech, she was thankful that her native country was making strides towards acceptance and equal rights for LGBTQ people. However, she emphasized that until these rights are status quo all over the world, we cannot consider ourselves truly free. This marked one of the first calls from a head of state to make LGBTQ rights the standard worldwide. [Source: HUMAN RIGHTS CAREERS.]

With many thanks and much gratitude to HUMAN RIGHTS CAREERS for this excellent and profound quote.

Great Gay Quotes

“If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn’t automatically remove the shame and fear that’s kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.” – Anthony Venn Brown, a former Australian evangelist in the Assemblies of God and an author whose book, A Life of Unlearning, describes his experience in Australia’s first ex-gay program.

Thanks and gratitude go to Queer Culture Chats for this great and wise quote.

Great Gay Quotes

Anderson Cooper, award-winning journalist, television personality and author. In 2012, Cooper publicly came out as gay.
With many thanks and much gratitude to Queer Culture Chats and Google Images for this great quote.

Be Proud!

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Queer Quote of the Day by George Takei

Quote thanks to Good Housekeeping.

Harvey Milk on Gay Rights

Gay quote thanks to Good Housekeeping.

True Friends

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Tim Cook on Being Gay

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Anderson Cooper on Being Gay

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