20 Encouraging Quotes of Support for LGBTQ+

Imagine being a well-known gospel singer with a large and growing fan base and being “outed” on social media in a leaked Instagram video for all the world to see before you were ready.

Unfortunately, this really happened to someone a few days ago. But I’m not going to write about it here. I choose rather to extend much love and peace to the young man, his partner, and their families. I’m sure they will need plenty of both in the days to come.

However. Being the loving, and unapologetically supportive mother of a Black LGBTQ+ young adult son. What I am going to is share some encouraging quotes. Words of support for our LGBTQ+ community.

May reading these encouraging quotes make a positive impact in the world for the greater good of all.

I am an Ally

1. You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter, you just have to be human.

~ Daniel Radcliff

2. Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

~ James Baldwin

3. If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work: “Hello can’t work today still queer.”

~Robin Tyler

4. Gay people are born and belong to every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers, and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a western invention. It is a human reality.

~Hillary Clinton

5. What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love.”

~Jay Z

6. “It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.”

~Francis Maude

Words Followed by Action Make the World a Better Place

7. The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”

~Barack Obama

8. Courage is being yourself every day in a world that tells you to be someone else.

~Unknown

9. In my household, being gay was, and is no big deal. When my brother came out, we hugged him, said we loved him, and that was that…There are people who’ve said that I’m being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption. With all due respect. I’m not being brave. I’m being a decent human being. Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

~ Anne Hathaway

10. There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.”

~ Chris Colfer

11. To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. Bayard Rustin

~Bayard Rustin

Positive Words Bring Positive Results

12. I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.

~Janet Mock

13. Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I’m political. Sometimes that all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let a anything or anybody take that away from you. Billy Porter

~ Billy Porter

14. Love starts from within. You are of value, and you are beautiful. Never allow anyone to tell you otherwise. Alfredo Hernandez

~ Alfredo Hernandez

15. It’s always been a deeply held belief of mine that everyone, everywhere should be treated equally. I’m proud that my beloved mother and father taught me as a child growing up in Mississippi to focus on the many things we all have in common, not our few differences. And what we all deserve to have in common is the right to be treated equally.

~ Robin Roberts

16. “The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay.”

~ Troy Perry

17. Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.”

~Barbara Gittings

18. We are powerful because we have survived

~Audre Lorde

19. Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.

~Ellen DeGeneres

20. People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

~Being Gay & Proud Quotes

I hope reading these encouraging quotes will impact you in a positive way and that you will pass it on.

Until the next time…

Much Love & Peace,

CarlaDee, BMISTribe™ Founder (#NotAlgbtq+ExpertJustAMother)

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