#lesbian

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#another #color #exist #generation #history

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #deal #ellen #fear #feelings

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. ↗

— Dan Savage

#attack #being #children #does #each

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gays #i #lesbians #reinvent #responsibility

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. ↗

— Dan Savage

#canadian #civil #equality #front #full

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#always #been #chance #civil #civil rights

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#lesbian #love #love

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

#coming-out-of-the-closet #gay #lesbian #lgbt #beauty

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#ashamed #certainly #her #i #lesbian