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75 Inspiring Pride Month Quotes Perfect for Sharing
On August 28, 1971, roughly 100 queer Canadians from Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto came together at Parliament Hill to present a petition to Canada’s government, demanding 10 specific demands for their equal rights and protections. Simultaneously, roughly twenty gay activists demonstrated at Robson Square on the other end of the country, Vancouver.
These events were Canada’s First Gay Liberation protest and march.
Since 1971, we've seen tremendous progress for LGTBQ2S+ folks. However, the community still fights for equality. Let these promising quotes encourage you to make that change and embrace your pride.
Motivational Pride quotes
1. "Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." - Jason Collins
2. "When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they treasure, we are all more free." - Barack Obama
3. "It's been a journey and a process of becoming totally out and sort of living that truth and having it be a daily thing. I'm at the indicate now that I need people to know that, and I want to talk about it. We'r
1. “Love him and let him affection you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin
In his iconic novel Giovanni’s Room, gay author James Baldwin makes a powerful statement about love. He proclaims that sex and gender don’t matter; all that matters is that two people love each other. Nothing should stand in their way if they have love in their hearts. These words resonated with millions of people who felt prefer their emotions were invalid because of the gender of the object of their love. With this quote, Baldwin assured them that it didn’t matter because love is love.
2. “If I wait for someone else to authenticate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi is a South African activist and artist. She works primarily in photography and video. Despite her fame as an designer, Muholi identifies herself as an activist first. It is her intention to use her art to highlight the beauty and distinctiveness of black LGBTQ women: a collective that she believes has been terribly underrepresented in all forms of art. So, instead of waiting for someone else to confirm LGBT women of color, she took it upon herself to bring th
35 Pride Month Quotes to Give With Your Community
Pete Buttigieg
If you got a problem with who I am, your difficulty is not with me – your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
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Leslie Feinberg
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
Janelle Monae
One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my help pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
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Gracie McGraw
So many people out there don't have the support, love or understanding from their families when it comes to sexuality or gender identity, but just realize that there is a lovely community out there that loves you and cares about and for you
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Chappell Roan
I just truly need to live in this fantasize world that I've created. And I want everyone else to live in it with me, on stage, or in the music videos or listening to the music. I just endeavor to be the girl that I really needed when I was fourteen.
Carl Nassib
I just want to norm
13 Powerful Marsha P. Johnson Quotes
No quote encapsulates Marsha P. Johnson more than “Pay It No Mind.” After all, that’s what she said her middle initial stood for. And that fearless attitude exemplifies how the Black trans person activist lived her life, leading the charge for LGBTQ rights every step of the way and participating in the Stonewall Inn uprising that sparked the gay celebration movement.
But life didn’t start out fearlessly for Johnson. As the fifth of seven children of a General Motors assembly line worker and a housekeeper, Johnson was about 5 years antique when she began wearing dresses but was often harassed by other children.
After her high academy graduation, she moved across the Hudson River to Recent York City in 1963 with only a bag of clothes and $15. She took on the name “Black Marsha” and eventually added on her famous middle initial and took her last name from a Howard Johnson restaurant she frequented.
It was a time when gay dancing in common wasn’t allowed, bars were banned from serving alcoholic drinks to gay people, and cross-dressing could lead to a sexual deviancy arrest. To make ends meet, she became a sex worker—often getting arrested, losing