#lesbian

Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re worthless. It’s not true. ↗

— Sarah Diemer

#gay-ya #gay-youth #glbt #glbtq #lesbian

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#change #characters #different #different kinds #especially

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#between #define #lesbian #lesbians #love

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#comedians #extremely #fact #gives #happy

I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#lesbian #vegetarian

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. ↗

— John Edwards

#benefits #comes #couples #deserve #done

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#bound #lesbian #lot #offered #thrillers

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement. ↗

— Billy Graham

#gay #i #lesbian #movement

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. ↗

— Laura Innes

#beyond #comes #explore #gay #intention

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#full #lesbian #mouth #say #some