#lesbian

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#complete #complete mystery #cosmic #i #joke

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

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do. ↗

— Judith Light

#celebrity #community #different #different way #gay

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

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian. ↗

— Ally Sheedy

#fall #going #grow #grow up #i

It's a curious, wanting thing. ↗

— Sarah Waters

#love #lust #love

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