“To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with you too.A historic shift is underway. We must tackle the violence, decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and end discrimination. We must educate the public. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen.The time has come.” PeopleEndsCountryHappensTodaySexStruggleViolenceGayConscienceLet MeDiscriminationEducateHistoricCouncilNot AloneTransgenderBisexualSex Relationships Author:Ban Ki-moon
“One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.” MenMeanEvilWomenChallengesStruggleVirtuePathGayBedMarriedUnderstoodSeductionDeviationMarried Man Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.” PeopleIfsLooksShowsWould BeNightGivenStruggleTelevisionGayComfortableLateHostComing OutSurprisingTalk ShowsLate Night Author:Andy Cohen
“You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers. We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again. I don't differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.” PeopleKnowsTryingFallHeavenChristSinStruggleIssuesSecurityTypeGayBelieverPreyGay PeopleDifferentiate Author:Alan Chambers
“I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.” ThinkingDifferencesStruggleRightsGayProfoundCivil RightsAfrican American Author:Christopher Rice
“What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.” PeopleStruggleGayGoing To WorkGay People Author:Andrew Sullivan
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantStruggleRightsCenturyMovementGaySlaveryCivil RightsInequality21st CenturyTransgenderCivil Rights Movement Author:George Takei
“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.” BookDreamEyeFatherBlackWhiteStruggleCitizensExerciseGayEmpathyThemeImmigrantsDiscourseThrough The EyesPublic DiscourseDreams From My Father Author:Barack Obama
“Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians.” Has BeensLastsAmericaIndividualHalfLibertyStruggleRightsCenturyMovementGayLibertarianCampaignsCivil RightsAbsentIndividual Liberty Author:Michael Lind
“I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.” ThinkingWayPersonsMightChoicesGrowsStruggleGrowing UpImpossibleGenerationsGayShameMy GenerationBeing Wrong Author:Ira Sachs
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” WisdomPeaceCommunityJusticeFreedomStruggleRightsSocietyDangerKingsGaySocial JusticeThreatInjusticeHuman RightsEqualityCivil RightsIslamicJailBentEqual RightsMenacePeace And JusticeCriminal JusticeI Had A DreamBeing At PeacePeace JusticeRacial JusticeEquality And JusticeInternational PeaceBirminghamLiberty And JusticeMass IncarcerationSocial InjusticeTruth And JusticeLaw And JusticeI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechJustice For AllKings And LoveGood KingsSocial EqualityCivil Right MovementJustice And MercyJustice And InjusticeSocial ActionAfrican American InspirationalAmerican JusticeEqual JusticeLegal RightsHuman EqualityAfrican American Civil RightsJustice EqualityJustice TruthBeloved CommunityInterrelatednessInjustice AnywhereRights In AmericaJustice Denied Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.” WinningMoralStruggleRevolutionGayDespairCrisisCivil RightsCheerHave FaithCivil Rights MovementGay RightsHaving HopeHope And DespairGood Cheer Author:Al Gore
“The political struggle against marriage equality is war” WarPoliticalStruggleGayMarriage EqualityPolitical Struggle Author:Pope Francis
“Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.” NaturalStruggleGayProtectIdeologyLiberationUnnaturalGlorification Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.” BelieveFeltAttitudeStruggleDemocracyRightsPolicyMovementGayHusbandUnityCivil RightsThriveLgbtMy HusbandDivisionInclusionUnjustParallelsUnworthyCivil Rights MovementFree SocietyGay RightsExclusionHomophobic Author:Coretta Scott King