Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Quotes

Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'

It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

We do not have any homosexuals in Iran.

I voted against her because she’s a damned lesbian.

The arguments given by my predecessors in support of the ban on same sex marriage are the same arguments that were given to ban interracial marriage.

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

I think all gay men are used to people saying no to them, to people not giving them choices.

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.