“I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.” ThinkingFoundCommunityGayBattleFeministRadicalFascinatingArticlesTransgenderTheoristsGay CommunityRadical Feminist Author:John Waters
“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.” IfsWorldWayLooksPersonsLongSelfHardCertainSupportSelf EsteemThis WorldColorRevolutionSelf LoveIntegrityGayMessagesSizeEsteemMinoritiesWorthlessFind MeTransgenderBisexualOverdue Author:Margaret Cho
“I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.” PeopleThinkingSelfCountryJobsChoicesIndividualRightsMilitaryGayMarriedArmyOur CountryRadicalAcknowledgeRevolutionaryAgendasPlatformsAdoptedBehalfTransgenderQualificationsOur ChoicesAdvocatingBisexualJoining The Army Author:Barney Frank
“Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am.” WayKindPersonsMovementGayActivistTransgender Author:Chaz Bono
“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
“I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.” PeopleHelpingRolesProudGayPrejudiceBillsClintonConvictionBlockVisibleTransgenderBisexualImpeachment Author:Barney Frank
“Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that's also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls.” PersonsStatesEyeLawGirlRaceFansFrontsGayEqualDeserveFairsBasesGenderDiscriminationTreatmentAgendasBullyingCentreTransgenderOrientationParcelEqual Treatment Author:Barack Obama
“Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?” PeopleWantShouldBelieveMeanTwoSexPlayerMovementIdentityGayNotionFolksGenderFixedRelatedSoupTransgenderFluidAlphabetBisexualitySmsAlphabet SoupSex And Gender Author:Kate Bornstein
“I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.” PeopleKnowsCommunityGayAliensOutsidersTransgenderBisexual Author:Cyndi Lauper
“I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.” FactsProblemKidsSchoolParentStreetsCoupleGaySuicideTransgenderGay CouplesPda Author:Steven Petrow
“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsFallGayHappeningsFirst TimeFalling In LoveTransgender Author:Cate Blanchett
“The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.” PeopleStatesGayPagesDenyPostsCooksLegislationTransgenderSpeaking Out Author:Laura Sydell
“The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.” PeopleMeanSufferingSpeakBlackPoorConditionsBrotherTruth IsGayBlack PeopleTransgenderWidowsOrphan Author:Cornel West
“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
“Love doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender. Your heart's gonna get broken. You're gonna turn into a crazy person.” IfsHeartPersonsCareTurnsCrazyBrokenGayTransgenderCrazy Person Author:Rumer Willis
“Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).” ActionIdentityGayBehaviorCrossesGenderDressingsTransgenderBisexualGender Identity Author:Steven Petrow
“We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.” PeopleDifferentAmericaBlackPartyGroupsGayDemocratRelateTransgenderHispanicCaucusAssemblingRural America Author:Collin Peterson
“Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.” PeopleYearsTodayYoungLosesGayAwfulTeenagerTransgender Author:Cleve Jones
“I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensAgeAcceptingRightsMovementGayIndividualityMindsetTransgenderGay PeopleVictorianVictorian Times Author:Kabir Bedi
“Today, the gay and lesbian people are accepted. Their families are welcome in the units where they serve. This is not so for transgender people in any way. But, nevertheless, it could be.” PeopleWayTodayGayAcceptedWelcomeNeverthelessUnitsTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“The gay movement has realized its agenda, so they've gotta transfer that energy somewhere and transgenders is the next.” NextEnergyMovementGayAgendasTransgenderTransfers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as well as I do that that's not going to happen.” KnowsWellsHappensHouseWhiteRightsGayWhite HouseBathroomCeremonyOnly TimeTransgenderGay Rights Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.” PeopleHardEnoughFacesImagineGayLifetimeCrueltyTransgenderTransBeing Gay Author:Patti Smith
“Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.” ReadingFeminismGaySexualityI RealizedTeenagerYoung WomenTransgender Author:Lorna Simpson
“We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.” PeopleWorldReasonTakenGayGenderHealthcareGay MarriageTransgenderMilestoneLive And Let Live Author:Beth Ditto
“Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.” PeopleKnowsWantInspirationalMayGayGuaranteesTransgenderBisexualBisexuality Author:Billie Jean King
“Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed at undermining what have been traditionally defined as right and wrong and moral and immoral, that's been turned upside down, and it's not changing. Yet.” MoralGaySpeedImmoralGay MarriageTransgenderUpside Down Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into "gay." If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.” MenRememberFightingGayGenderUpsetRemember WhenTransgender Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.” MenMeanCreativeGayGenderGenerousFabulousGay MarriageTransgenderCrayon Author:Susan Sarandon
“You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.” PeopleKnowsGayLgbtTransgenderBisexualBisexuality Author:Judith Light
“I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalChildrenPersonsWinningPrinciplesSeeingBrotherGayOur ChildrenProfoundWorkersTreatedRecognitionCousinTransgenderCo WorkerPersonal Leadership Author:Barack Obama
“If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.” IfsWorldPersonsThis WorldIntegrityGaySizeColourMinoritiesTransgenderBisexual Author:Margaret Cho