#lgbt

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. ↗

— David Levithan

#lgbt-rights #experience

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness. ↗

— Huston Piner

#romance #ya #young-adult #life

For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#cristy-anne #lesbian #lgbtq #love #queer-youth

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lgbt #literature #love #love

If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will. ↗

— C.J. Reid

#glbt #lgbt #romance #love

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#love #love

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia ↗

— Eric C. Wat

#lgbt #racism #men

Only in hindsight can we see the moments where our lives skewed off-course, where we traveled down the wrong path, where the worst lies we told were the ones we told ourselves. ↗

— Emma Shane

#life-lessons #relationships #romance #relationship

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#england #homophobia #homosexuality #lgbt-literature #maurice-novel

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

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt