25 Most-loved LGBTQ+ Sayings to Celebrate Pride Month

Each year Pride Month takes place during the month of June to commemorate the watershed moment that kicked off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. It’s a big chance for the LGBTQ+ community to raise awareness and take action toward political change, acceptance, and equal rights.

And it's now time to rock this month and speak out the words. 

Pride Month: Inspirational Quotes to Celebrate Pride and Love Every Day

We do believe that actions often speak louder than words, but these most-favorited LGBTQ quotes prove that the right words can also make an enormous impact on society.

Scroll down the find a perfect LGBT message that speaks to you, then text it to loved ones or post it on social media to keep trailblazing.

#1. “That is — your friend?" 

"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.” 

― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

#2. “We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.”

― Pete Wentz

#3. “Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.” 

― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

#4. “This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?" What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?” 

― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

#5. “Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”

― Jess C Scott, Tongue-Tied

#6. “The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.” 

― Rita Mae Brown

#7. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.” 

― Rachel Maddow

#8. “I am not here to entertain straight people.” 

― Sarah Schulman

#9. “Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.” 

― Paul Monette

#10. “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” 

― Harvey Milk

#11. “Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral. And it's relentless.” 

― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

#12. “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.” 

― Alice Oseman, Loveless

#13. “There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male.” 

― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

#14. “What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?” 

― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

#15. “I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.” 

― E.M. Forster, Maurice

#16. “Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.” 

― P.C. Cast, Awakened

#17. “Human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.” 

― Hayley Williams

#18. “Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story.” 

― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

#19. “I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing” 

― Connor Franta

#20. “Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.” 

― Quentin Crisp

#21. “I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.” 

― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

#22. “This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.” 

― Tyler Oakley, Binge

#23. “It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.” 

― E.M. Forster, Maurice

#24. “She's happy with who she is. Maybe it's not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”

― Alice Oseman, Loveless

#25. “With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.” 

― Kathleen Patel, The Bullying Epidemic-the guide to arm you for the fight