Quotes

[thetwolezz]

I come across some great GBLT-related quotes from different people here and there, and thought ya'll might have some good ones too.


Here's one I just found:
Bigotry should be a luxury people have to pay for.

 

[Anniejustagirl]

"We are not the first but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentleman, by two unstopable forces: freedom and equality"

Jose Luis Rodrigueaz, Prime Minister of Spain
(in a speech given after Spain legalized gay marriage)

 

[Anniejustagirl]

"Anytime I can support the gay community in whichever way I can, I want to really show up big."

Alanis Morissette
(explaining why she changed the lyrics of "Ironic" to be more gay inclusive)



In 2004 Morissette amended a lyric as a show of her support for gay marriage:

"It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful husband"

She first sang the line at the fifteenth annual GLAAD Media Awards in March 2004. She recorded an acoustic version of the song with the amended lyric for an exclusive iTunes Music Store release. Another acoustic version was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005), and another for the Cities 97 Sampler Volume 16 (2004). A live version without the altered lyric is included on the album Alanis Unplugged (1999).

 

[Anniejustagirl]

Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.




~Bruce Bawer, The Advocate, 28 April 1998

Wow! Does this one tear my heart.

 

[co1029]

"You know, the same percentage of people are gay and lesbian as are left-handed. Let's try to figure that out. How can it be that a left-handed person can get married to another left-handed person. Left-handed people can do anything they want... I say, give homosexuals the same rights we give left-handed people."

Peter Camejo



absolutely amazing...