The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.' - Barbara Gittings 'Equality means more than passing laws.I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change.'We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.' - Larry Kramer, 'The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me'.'The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live love has been our survival.' - Audre Lorde, 'Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches'.'Folks who were willing to endure bullying and taunts, and stayed strong, and came to believe in themselves and who they were, and slowly made an entire country realize that love is love.' - Barack Obama.Let’s start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.' - Billie Jean King 'It’s just really important that we start celebrating our differences.

It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly.' - Edith Windsor And some will make you question everything.' - Tim Cook 'It’s about finding your values, and committing to them.It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.' - Marsha P. 'History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable.It takes no survey to remove repression.' - Harvey Milk It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no money to respect the individual. 'It takes no compromise to give people their rights.'The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.' - Anthony Venn Brown.It’s the rainbow of humanity.' - Gilbert Baker 'What I liked about the rainbow is that it fits all of us.“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”- Ernest J.'To realize a world of equality and dignity for all, we will have to change laws and policies we will also have to change hearts and minds.' - Rick Parnell.“We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation.” - Ban Ki-moon.'Where there is love, there is life.' - Mahatma Gandhi.“We are powerful because we have survived.” - Audre Lorde.'Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.' - Brené Brown, 'The Gifts of Imperfection'.'It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.' - E.E.“Love is never wrong.” - Melissa Etheridge.

“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” - Barack Obama.

The man of her dreams is a girl.” - Julie Anne Peters, “Keeping You a Secret”

“Hope will never be silent.” - Harvey Milk.

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“Gender is who you are, and sexuality is who you want.” - C.N.

'We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.' - Elliot Page.

Whether you brush up on your reading this June with one of these LGBTQ-inspired books or gather with friends to watch a film in honor of Pride Month, make sure to offer your support by sharing these quotes to remind others that until everyone is equal, no one truly is.

More than just inspirational, these short messages of hope and determination mark the progress made since the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and the work yet to be finished in achieving true equity for all.

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