“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
“Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.”— Leslie Feinberg, amazon.com
“Imagine getting murdered because your showrunner wanted to turn your primetime scissoring soap into a murder mystery as a backdoor pilot to send the most cartoony character to jail to headline a prison show.”— Heather Hogan, 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
“I am tired of talking about coming out. I am out. Coming out was not the point of my story. It was the end of the first act. There’s so much story after that.”— Casey McQuiston, oprahdaily.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 sound like such a bottom right now, but who wouldn’t want to get topped by Kate Winslet?”— Jill Gutowitz, glamour.com
“Heterosexual couples have it easy, compared to LGBTQ couples. I’ve had boyfriends, and I’ve had girlfriends. Bringing home a man is far easier than bringing home a woman.”— Kathrine Meraki, psiloveyou.xyz
“You are 16 when you fall in love with your best friend—only you don’t understand the 'in' part yet, so you just call it love. Teenage girls are always loving their friends, becoming entangled, like trees grown together, so you think that’s what it is.”— V.E. Schwab, oprahmag.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
“Among the posts appreciating Rivera’s life and work, many came from queer folks who hailed her portrayal of Lopez on Glee.”— Wren Sanders, them.us
“When I would write graphic violence ... I would feel so zen. It was ... like four hours of therapy.”— Halley Gross, latimes.com
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status, a major victory for advocates of gay rights and for the nascent transgender rights movement — and a surprising one from an increasingly conservative cour…”— Pete Williams, NBC News, nbcnews.com
“Circus of Books was my first glimpse into the fact that I wasn't alone as a gay person.”— Freddie Bercovitz, imdb.com
“As more and more homeless shelters are being forced to close amid the ever worsening pandemic, the options for those seeking safe havens are rapidly dwindling, with vulnerable communities hardest hit.”— Brooke Bobb, Vogue, vogue.com
“The first time they kiss another queer person, or a person of the same gender, there's a whole different kind of spark. It can feel like something entirely new and entirely right at once, pulling back the curtain to reveal a world you might not have been sure about but are excited to enter.”— Brittney McNamara, teenvogue.com