This Book Is Gay Quotes

“Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Frankly, if you want to identify as a carrot, I will march in the Carrot Pride parade with you.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“people aren’t allowed to say what’s really on their minds for fear of upsetting people, we’ll end up never saying anything at all.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“However you identify, be it lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, curious, or carrot, we all have something in common—we are a minority, and we have made brave steps to identify as such; we have refused to hide and made a declaration of who we are.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“You are never too young to learn that the whole world is largely run and designed for straight, white, cis men, or 'the patriarchy'.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“The less we understand a group in society--the less we bother to learn--the more misconceptions and worries we have.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“LGBTQ+ people do not choose to be LGBTQ+. Bigots choose to hate.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent with Rachel Maddow while watching Drag Race. You might as well own it.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“When I visit schools, most now have at least one “gay couple” and, importantly, the rest of the school doesn’t seem to give a flying fig.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“pansexual”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“It's a never-ending quest for a state of perfection that doesn't exist”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“(you are never too young to learn that the whole world is largely run and designed for straight, white, cis men, or 'the patriarchy').”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“but if people aren’t allowed to say what’s really on their minds for fear of upsetting people, we’ll end up never saying anything at all.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it.”
― Juno Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“Freud called it ‘transference’. This basically means that you hate in others what you hate about yourself.)”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

“O impacto do bullying homofóbico é enorme. Pesquisas realizadas pela Stonewall, uma instituição de caridade britânica em prol dos direitos de pessoas gay, descobriram que 50% dos jovens estudantes LGB* já tinham cabulado aula, enquanto 70% disseram que o bullying tinha afetado seu desempenho na escola. Bom,”
― James Dawson, Este livro é gay: E hétero, e bi, e trans...

“Um dos estereótipos mais estranhos sobre nós é que homens gay odeiam lésbicas e vice-versa. Deixe-me poupar o seu tempo. Se você está conversando com homens gay que desprezam lésbicas (ou então depreciam a vagina como conceito), está falando com imbecis misóginos. Se você está falando com uma mulher gay que classifica todos os homens gay como odiadores de lésbicas, você está falando com uma homofóbica sexista.”
― James Dawson, Este livro é gay: E hétero, e bi, e trans...