Showing posts with label Quote of the Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote of the Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Quote of the Day: Maj. Margaret Witt

"I miss being able to be the one that that soldier looks at and I can do something for him. I'm not complete, and it kills me to not be there." - Maj. Margaret Witt (pictured), former Air Force Reserve flight nurse testifying about her dismissal from the military under the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy as quoted in The Huffington Post

Friday, May 14, 2010

Quote of the Day: Laura Bush



"When couples are committed to each other and love each other ... they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has." - Laura Bush, former first lady of the United States, as quoted by The Huffington Post

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Quote of the Day: Maria Garcia

"Every mother should do this for her children." - Maria Garcia, a mother who accompanied her 23-year-old gay son at a Los Angeles rally for Social Security benefits for gay couples, as quoted by the Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Quote of the Day: Jared Polis

"You still can't be openly gay and serve in the military, so [the recent revision] doesn't change the reality that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is making our military weaker every day that it exists." - Out U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., as quoted by LGBT POV

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Quote of the Day: Brad Sears

"Census 2010 is a once-in-a decade opportunity to gain critical information about the LGBT community. It will provide accurate data to inform policies ranging from LGBT people serving in the military to marriage. Making sure you are counted is just as important as voting. While voting on a ballot measure might impact one of your rights; participating in the Census will impact all of your rights for the next decade." - Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Institute

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Quote of the Day: Dick Cheney

"When the chiefs come forward and say we think we can do it, it strikes me it's time to reconsider the policy. I'm reluctant to second-guess the military in this regard."
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney, on ending the military ban, as quoted by The Associated Press on Google

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Quote of the Day: Gareth Thomas

"My biggest fear was people turning against me, or seeing me no longer as a rugby player. But I've had a lot of support, a lot of backing, a lot of people saying how courageous it is." - Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, on his coming out, as quoted by the BBC

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Quote of the Day

"I promise to give to citizens an administration of honesty, integrity and transparency. The only special interest will be the public. We are in this together. We rise or fall together." - openly gay Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker

Monday, December 14, 2009

Quote of the Day

"I think it says more about California than it does about me -- it means that California is a place where everybody has a seat at the table, that we're a state where everybody brings forward their contributions." - Calif. Rep. John Perez, on being the first out speaker of the state Assembly, as quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Quote of the Day: Gene Simmons on Adam Lambert


"If only the world was not homophobic, but it is. I would be the first one to vote for equal rights for gay women and men, and get the church and the state to stop telling everybody how to lead their lives, but do I think he's killed his career? Oh, in an instant." - Gene Simmons on Adam Lambert

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Quote of the Day: Chuniya Devi


"I learned that the more you suffer silently, the more your oppressor will oppress you," - Chuniya Devi, member of India's Pink Gang

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Quote of the Day: San Francisco Bay Guardian


“With its wide-open definition of the word queer and fearless publishing choices that ricochet from risky to risqué, San Francisco’s Suspect Thoughts Press has made the book world a more interesting place to inhabit. Suspect Thoughts has swiftly become the hot press for connoisseurs of transgressive, intelligent literature.” - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Friday, August 29, 2008

Quote of the Day: Michelle Obama

"Barack believes that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where together we work to reverse discriminatory laws like DOMA and 'don't ask, don't tell.' The world as it is should be one that rejects discrimination of all kinds." - Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, as quoted by Reuters

Friday, August 22, 2008

Quote of the Day: Rick Stafford

"One of the goals is not only to celebrate, but to focus that we are the messengers of a pro-equality message and send our message to our candidate." - Rick Stafford, chairman of the LGBT Americans caucus at the Democratic National Committee, on LGBT delegates' role at the national convention, as quoted in The Denver Post.