When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?

A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. (‘The Universal and the Particular’)” … In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal,...

…There are no ‘what ifs.’ You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you’ve got or cut her loose.

I won’t let that happen. Once I get you warmed up, you’ll forget all these silly insecurities. And I’d bet my favorite dildo that the instant you see Blake in the buff, you’ll be damn...

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

ZOEgiven some liberty from heaven Godyoung and a rebelIs this why you chose meup against it allI wonder what’s in storefor this rebel you say I reveal?but I don’t think I have that rebel appealbut...

The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You’ve surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a...

If you don’t know for sure, then what’s the big thing about trying stuff out?” Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn’t have any of...

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...

Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women,” which I didn’t think was all that weird.

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.

I’ve always believed,” she replied, “that if God is going to be strict about anything, that He will be strict about the rules concerning hate, not love. And if two people love each other, that...

I went out with a friend to a lesbian bar, and I flirted my (butt) off. It was such a great night. It was so freeing and such fun. I noticed that everyone there was...

In certain companyOften the uninvitedWe reactWe transform one another

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender—let me say—you are not alone. Your struggle for the end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call...

Jen believes she was asked to leave because Portland believed she was a lesbian.

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first...

…by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; ‘circle’ sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.

If I was gay, I wouldn’t need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a...

Well, actually, I’m a bisexual lesbian in a man’s body… but it’s more complicated than that.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing...

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city.

I really feel that people who have problem with Lesbians‬, Gays‬ and Transgenders‬, should be blessed with any one of them Only to realize that they are human beings too..Let them live peacefully for gods...

God doesn’t like lesbians,” Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn’t understand why God would hold that against her...

That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She...

Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it any less. When I was fifteen I left Jamaica. I knew that I was a lesbian then...

The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.

I am not here to entertain straight people.

The world is full of unrequited love,’ I said finally.’You and Patrick having problems?’ Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.’No, I was just wondering what you would say if...

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

God’s truth!’ one side shouts.’More loving!’ comes the response.’God’s truth!”More loving!”God’s truth!”More loving!’But there shouldn’t be a clash between ‘God’s truth’ and ‘More loving.’ In the Bible, Truth and Love are two sides of the...

We were in a state of suspended animation: Oblivious to the world around us, time seemingly standing still, and our perceptions focused only on a couple specific parts of our anatomy. In fact, only one...

Woman-identification is a source of energy, a potential springhead of female power, violently curtailed and wasted under the institution of heterosexuality. The denial of reality and visibility to women’s passion for women, women’s choice of...

Everybody always thinks I’m a lesbian because I’m a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

Too much beauty can be hard to bear.

Maya repeated the achingly slow process with the remote control in reverse, and in the profound quiet that ensued, looked at Leyla.‘Why are you doing this to me?’Yasmin turned on her mother. ‘She’s not doing...

But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. – about being gay from the film Love My Life

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…

She scissored the curls away, and – toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly – it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I...

plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was...

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…a man, a woman, what have you…it’s the fact that...

So, let me get this straight– You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a ‘sin’? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure,...

My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; or to lie to everyone,...

Hey roomie.” I was breathless. I looked her straight in the eyes as my fingers squeezed my nipples and rubbed my swollen clit. “Told you I wouldn’t stop when you caught me.