"I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity" - Out & Equal Executive Director Selisse Berry "Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying." - Sir Ian McKellen "Where my evolution took place was not in my attitude toward same-sex couples, it was in understanding the pain and the sense of stigma that was being placed on same-sex couples who are friends of mine, where they'd say, "You know what, if you're not calling it marriage, it doesn't feel like the same thing." - Barack Obama "Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?" - Ellen DeGeneres Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness." - Anthony Venn Brown
The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. "If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. "I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. "It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist." - Laverne Cox
"All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential." - Harvey Milk There were so many different ways to be beautiful." - Michael Cunningham The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality." - James Baldwin You you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in." - Chris Colfer "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." - Boethius