Sexuality Acceptance Quotes

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

When I started the radio program in 1981, not many people were talking about sexuality. Not many people were talking about AIDS or HIV.

My sexuality, in terms of 'Strictly' or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

Don't be afraid. Don't be ashamed. Don't ever apologize for your sexuality. Just be you.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

There comes to mind … the divorce laws, licensing laws, prehistoric (and flagrantly unfair) abortion laws, obsolete penalties for sexual abnormality, the illiterate censorship of books and plays, and the remaining restrictions on the equal rights of women. Most of these are intolerable and should be highly offensive to socialists, in whose blood there should always run a trace of the anarchist and the libertarian, and not too much of the prig and the prude.

My sexuality is only a thread of the tapestry of my life.

I'm not looking to be a gay poster child. If you're gay, and I inspire you, I don't want to put that down. But I'm not looking to be your gay savior.

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.

It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

I knew from a young age that I was attracted to guys. I didn't know if it was a phase... I didn't want to say, 'Hey, I might be gay. I might be bi.' I just didn't know... I wanted to find who I was and make sure I knew what was comfortable. So I didn't tell anyone growing up.

I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality.

We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.

My goal in talking about my sexuality publicly is just so that a scared little girl or little boy can see me do it and think, 'wow, if she did it, then maybe it's OK that I do it.' It's to encourage people to be themselves.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.