“There are plenty of letters in the alphabet... Why bother rushing to a conclusion? Sometimes your letter changes, sometimes you try a different one, other times you realize you’re not what you thought you were, or maybe you always knew.”— Joshua Bassett, gq.com
“For all its imperfections, Pride is one of the only places I can take Remi that reinforces the messages we try to convey at home, that all bodies are good bodies, that gender is expansive and individual, that clothes have no gender, that there are other people like her parents and other families lik…”— KaeLyn Rich, autostraddle.com
“Set a water alarm on your phone, every hour! I see straight girls do this with their birth-control all the time. We’ll do this with our water intake.”— Zara Barrie, gomag.com
“JoJo Siwa doesn’t want to be perceived kissing boys, even in scripted fiction.”— Valerie Anne, autostraddle.com
“Life is hard enough, and I want everyone to know that I love them, I want everyone to know that I’m having a nice time. This is my goal: When people leave a conversation with me, I want them to think, What a kind lovely person, I really felt connected to them, and DONE.”— E.R. Fightmaster, thecut.com
“When I see her,’ I said, ‘it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw anything at all before.”— Sarah Waters, amazon.com
“Siwa doesn’t owe us a single thing, but as I approach my 30s, I’m deeply grateful to her anyway.”— Emma Specter, vogue.com
“Ellen crawled so Kirsten Stewart could walk, Elliot Page walked so millennials could run, and millennials ran so Gen Z could fly.”— Valerie Anne, autostraddle.com
“A hole busted through the Wall Of Internalized Homophobia in my brain. This rendezvous ended up being a revolution.”— Alison Hinman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m still sad we continue to lose lesbian bars. The ones that are left should be preserved as if we’re conserving the dying language of our people.”— Ty Yule, gomag.com
“The gay women I’ve dated don’t expect me to perform romance as a man would, because their relationships have never or rarely included men, and as a result they’ve created their own version of what romance looks like. In this situation our interactions feel less scripted and more ad-libbed, and I fee…”— Vee Kinsley, psiloveyou.xyz
“Ignorance is not absolution. The failure to realize the origins of a word does not erase them.”— Rich Juzwiak, jezebel.com
“Reader, you do not have to go looking for that fanfiction. Well, you kind of do.”— Himani, autostraddle.com
“Benito Skinner is so attuned to all that’s culturally relevant that Benny Drama is perpetually relatable.”— Mary Beth Barone, coveteur.com
“I think I've wished to see a gay Christmas rom-com my whole life.”— Kristen Stewart, harpersbazaar.com
“I don’t want to pass because it feels like lying. And the longer I wait, the more it shifts from feeling like 'just' lies of omission to outright lies of commission.”— Gillian Morshedi, medium.com
“I don’t try and control women’s feelings. I’m not a straight, white, anti-abortion, middle-aged male.”— Zara Barrie, gomag.com