Lgbtq messages
Dear LGBTQ+ Youth: We Love You
If you determine as LGBTQ+, we hope you undergo proud of who you are and are compassionate with yourself no matter where you are on your journey. If you are an ally, recognize you for helping make National Coming Out Day easier for everyone in our community.
We asked our community to record their messages to share with LGBTQ+ youth who may need a little extra help. Listen to our audio quilt below, and scroll down to hear over 30 messages of love and sustain , in honor of National Coming Out Day!
If you haven’t come out yet, that’s okay. We hope hearing these messages of support from your HRC family helps create today and every day a petite better.
Watch our Born to Shine video to hear messages of love and verb from our community!
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35 Pride Month Quotes to Share With Your Community
Pete Buttigieg
If you got a problem with who I am, your problem 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 verb that with me in my back 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 beautiful community out there that loves you and cares about and for you
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Chappell Roan
I just truly want to exist in this aspire world that I've created. And I want everyone else to live in it with me, on stage, or in the tune videos or listening to the harmony. I just strive
1. “Love him and let him noun 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 enjoy 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 approve 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 artist, Muholi identifies herself as an activist first. It is her intention to use her art to highlight the beauty and individuality of black LGBTQ women: a group that she believes has been terribly underrepresented in all forms of art. So, instead o
Messaging Guides
The Talking About LGBTQ Issues series is a set of research-based resources designed to help shape discussions with conflicted or undecided Americans—and help them finer understand key issues of importance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people.
In conversations about marriage, employment protections and non-discrimination laws, adoption and parenting, military service or hate crimes, it can often be easy to fall back on abstract jargon or angry rhetoric that can derail discussions with those who are not familiar with the issues. These guides propose ways that LGBTQ organizations, community members and allies alike can build usual ground with moveable audiences, show them how their actions (or inaction) can hurt gay and transgender people, and help them realize issues of LGBTQ equality through the lenses of their own values and beliefs.
Equality for LGBTQ people is really about basic human values and needs: the ability of everyday Americans to pursue health and happiness, earn a living, be harmless in their communities, serve