#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

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#around #even #female #had #i

I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#boy #community #deal #felt #had

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've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#cast #get #i #lesbian #trying

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bold #care #comedy #comics #hard

Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#i #lesbian #manager #now #oh

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

#lesbian #vegetarian

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#even #few #films #know #lesbians