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1 " ten reasons to love being queerviii.the people within our community are so supportive and so caring and so loving, most of the time towards people they don’t even knowand it is in moments like that when you realize that the queer community is more than a communitywe are a family "
― Courtney Carola , Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
2 " the real problem isdogs can take a piss in publicbut human beings are still fighting to "
3 " my blood runs pink(for my sexuality that is mine to embrace, not yours to strikewith lightning bolts of change)and red(for the life i will continue to live, the life you cannot takeaway from me)and orange(for my siblings who heal me with their love andunderstanding, helping me piece myself back together after you triedto break me)and yellow(for the sunlight from within that still manages to shine inthese dark times)and green(for existing in the natural, physical world when all you wantis my disappearance)and blue(for the serenity we bring amidst the disturbances we face)and purple(for my spirit, which won’t be broken)(it can never be broken and you will never break us) "
4 " i’ll be okay even if i don’t understandhow i don’t want to be a girl, but also don’t want to be a man "
5 " you’re such a pretty girl” they saybut they don’t see the way she recoils back from the worldas if it’s coming for her like fire, as if it burns and it doesit burns like a flame that no one can seeso white hot and intense that it rivals the sunit melts her skin and eats away at her fleshuntil she is nothingnothing but a skeleton that no one can call a girl "
6 " i can loveas Aristotle who coined the term “philía”loved his brothersit isn’t that hard of a concept to graspbut because i am not grasping someone elseyou think there is something wrong with mebut i am fine "
7 " the man i went on a date with did more than try to "cure me" of my asexualityit's funny because i never thought someone's penis would be considered an antidote of any kindand i don't think that's what my doctor meant when he told me i needed more Vitamin D in my dietbut apparently my sexuality was enough of a diagnosis for him to decide to play doctor with memaybe he should’ve put his stethoscope up to my mouth instead of between my breastsmaybe then he would’ve heard me when i told him to stop it "
8 " they want us to believe that to be queer, to be trans, to be confused, to be questioning isequivalent to being a sinnerbut conveniently forget that we are all sinners in God’s eyesthat every day we all sinthat sin dates all the way back to Adam and Eve, and ever since then we have all beendeemed sinners in God’s eyesbut sinners can be forgiven "
9 " they want us to believe that the way we love is wrong“and a man who will lie down with a male in a woman’s bedboth of them have made an abomination.”but conveniently forget how David’s and Jonathan’s souls were knit together,that the two of them had a bond between the two of them that was too strong to ignorethat the two of them formed a covenant with one another.“the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David,and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”that David preferred the love of Jonathan to the love of any woman "
10 " Living in a world that is grossly opposed to who you are, the bravest and most radical thing to do is to be yourself. And being a part of the LGBT+ community is just that – brave. "
11 " God is fighting for us, for we are His children first and foremostGod loves us for who we are, for who He made us out to beand there is no greater sin than to try and convince us otherwise. "