“As a gay man, I subsist on a diet that mainly consists on online validation from strangers, iced coffee, and MEMES.”— Sam Stryker, buzzfeed.com
“The cult around celebrity relationships may be a wayward religion for many people, but for me, it was just the church I needed.”— Shirley Chan, slate.com
“When you're young, being different is not cool. But when you're older, it absolutely is.”— Lane Moore, cosmopolitan.com
“Incidental activism then is about embracing that visibility, which means proudly projecting their sexuality and demonstrating good parenting—and doing both in a way that’s protective of their children.”— C. Brian Smith, melmagazine.com
“The idea that this is what it means to become platonically close with another woman conveniently explains away potential slips into romance.”— Sadie Graham, broadly.vice.com
“I know it’s our duty as lesbians to rescue a cat the second we move in together, but I don’t even remember to feed myself. I would totally neglect a poor little kitten.”— Dayna Troisi, gomag.com
“I didn’t go to another party for a few months. (Unless, of course, you count the gigantic pity party I threw for myself on a daily basis.)”— Jacob Geers, vox.com
“Maybe it’s that queer people are more familiar with atypical timelines, and being someone’s first. Maybe this woman was special.”— Katie Heaney, cosmopolitan.com
“This may be what Ms. Maroh meant when she said the sex scenes were missing lesbians; I’d go further and say they’re missing women of any kind. Adèle’s hunger is contained, prettified, aestheticized.”— Manohla Dargis, nytimes.com
“You know what I'm going to do from now on, ask people if they're gay before I have sex with them.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com
“In a day and age when people are coming out younger than ever before – some even identifying as gay or trans pre-adolescence – it’s become harder to imagine someone waiting until middle age to come out.”— Jason A. Michael, pridesource.com
“Oh, I wish I had some sob story that would explain everything. Well, sorry to disappoint you, sugar. Ain't no dramatic origin story here. Just a big old dyke who refuses to apologize for it.”— Jenji Kohan, Carrie 'Big Boo' Black, Lea DeLaria, imdb.com
“Girls like me? We don't fuck ignorant, pretentious old men with weird lesbian obsessions. We go for tall, hot girls, and we fucking love it. So that leaves you on the outside, living your sad, sad little life.”— Jenji Kohan, Piper Chapman, Taylor Schilling, imdb.com
“Lesbians can be very dangerous. It's the testosterone.”— Jenji Kohan, Sam Healy, Michael Harney, imdb.com
“We weren’t just noticing each other. We were out there to be looked at. We were cruising.”— Mikaella Clements, hazlitt.net
“You saw us all on Earth: a selfish ass, an idiot DJ, a tortured academic, a hot, rich fraud with legs for days... Side note, I might legit be into Tahani.”— Michael Schur, Eleanor Shellstrop, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“Both inside and outside the club, being a stripper can be taxing for anyone regardless of their sexual preferences.”— Sofia Barrett-Ibarria, vice.com
“We deserve to have our stories told in the mainstream — the good, the bad, and the ugly — but it is worth thinking about whose comfort is being prioritized when it comes to the way those stories are packaged and sold.”— Shannon Keating, buzzfeed.com
“Sex, in other words, is a key way we express ourselves as queer people, and we’re lucky enough to be part of a community at the vanguard of sexual expression.”— Alexander Cheves, them.us