“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
“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal.” - Connor Franta
“Having to hide something like that just ruined me. It really, really killed me. I really honestly think that anybody who is openly gay and visible is powerful. It doesn’t matter what you do, you are impacting people.” – Portia De Rossi
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” - Sharon Salzberg
“As a sexually fluid deaf man, I know that embracing all of our identities is the way to thrive and overcome limitations and prejudices. There is no doubt in my mind that human diversity is what colors our world.” - Nyle DiMarco
“Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay.” – Ross Matthews
“Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights." – Hillary Clinton
“Nobody is wired wrong because there is no wrong and right in the way we are.” – Hannah Hart
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself, but always your better self. — Karl G. Maeser
The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears. — Dan Pearce