Lesbian quotes for the NEW YEAR

Love is when you look into someone's eyes and see their heart.

Having a vagina doesn't stop me from believing that my balls are bigger than yours.

You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building each other instead tearing each other down.

You are the peanut to my butter, twinkle in my eye, shake to my bake, blue in my sky, sprinkles on my sundae, flip to my flop, bumble to my bee, jewel on my crown, milk to my shake, spring in my step, beat of my heart, love of my life.

You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.

Another lesbian for straight women's rights.

Courage is being yourself everyday in a world that tells you to be someone else.

A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.

Gay rights are human rights.   --Hillary Clinton

I am not afraid of my truth anymore and I will not omit pieces of me to make you comfortable.

You will forever be my always.

Don't be afraid to show your true colors.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

As I've grown older I've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

My only regret is that I didn't tell enough people to fuck off.

Don't judge me by my past, I don't live there anymore.

Authenticity requires vulnerability, transparency and integrity.

If you want to be trusted just be honest.

Patience allows life time to fall into place.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Only a fool trips on what is behind her.

The way I see it you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes, because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love and live everyday as if it's your last.   --Mary Kate Olsen

I'm the rainbow sheep in my family.

Trump Lies to the L.G.B.T. Community

During his campaign, Mr. Trump promised to be a better "friend of women and the L.G.B.T. community" than Hillary Clinton. Now, as president, gay rights advocates are accusing him of betraying his promise.

Trump has been trying to roll back our rights from the beginning of his presidency. He has attempted to meet the demands of his conservative constituants who want to stop protecting gay people from discrimination.

In one day this month, 3 separate actions showed us that the Trump administration will use the powers of the federal government to roll back civil rights for gay and transgender people. 

Without being asked, the Justice Department intervened in a private employment lawsuit, arguing that the ban on sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect workers on the basis of their sexual orientation. The friend-of-the-court brief, filed at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, was a striking shift in tone from the Obama administration, which had shied away from that question.

At the beginning of this day there was a tweet from President Trump announcing a ban on transgender people serving in the military. This surprised Pentagon leaders and reversed a year-old Obama administration policy.

Also on the same day, Mr. Trump announced that he would nominate Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas and a vocal opponent of gay rights, to be the nation's ambassador at large for international religious freedom.

The constellation of events raised alarm among gay rights advocacy groups, which portrayed the moves as a concerted effort to limit advancements in gay rights.

"Yesterday was this administration's anti-L.G.B.T. day," James D. Esseks, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's lesbian Gay Bixesual Transgender and HIV Project, said. "Whether coordinated or not, to have it all happen on the same day certainly brings into focus the profoundly anti-L.G.B.T. agenda of the administration.

Taken together, the administration's actions are a prize for religious conservatives who backed Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign but were far more enamored of his vice-presential pick, Mike Pence.

Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the ban and other moves were "the most cynical of dog-whistle politics" and an effort to "rile up the president's base as this administration flounders on health care reform and the Russia investigation, and as its popularity ratings plummet."

"Yesterday, he (Trump) went after everyone with a direct assault. He truly declared war on our community," said Chad Griffin, the president of Human Rights Campaign. "I promise you, this is a battle we are going to win."

WikiLeaks and LGBT Community

1. WikiLeaks, the transparency website founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, (who currently lives in London, where he fled after Sweden issued a warrant for his arrest based on sexual assault allegations.) Wikileaks has waded into the waters of partisan politics with its release of thousands of private emails from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign. There’s a principled argument for this kind of radical transparency. Assange himself made it more than a decade ago on his then-blog: “The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and.”The reality, however, is that some secrets exist for a reason. While Assange may be basking in the limelight for embarrassing Clinton these past two weeks, some of his recent actions may have caused significant collateral damage — particularly to members of the LGBT community.
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3. In July, WikiLeaks published documents from inside the regime of Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following a failed attempt at a coup. That leak, however, included the private information of thousands of Turkish women, including their home addresses. In publishing Saudi Arabian diplomatic cables, the site outed two male teenage rape victims in Saudi Arabia, and published the name of a man imprisoned for “sexual deviation.” One survivor was reportedly “raped by a man while abroad” and one was “so violently raped [that] his legs were broken,” the cables said, according to the Associated Press. 
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5. WikiLeaks’ methods were criticized by exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed the NSA’s controversial metadata program in a 2013 leak. “Democratizing information has never been more vital, and WikiLeaks has helped,” Snowden has said. “But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake.” The Washington Post later argued that WikiLeaks operates under a “reckless just-publish-everything mentality,” acting with a blatant disregard for the civilians caught in the crosshairs.
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7. When it comes to reporting on LGBT lives, redacting sensitive information is extremely important. The practice of outing, revealing someone’s sexuality before the individual is willing or able to come out publicly, has been criticized by LGBT activists as an invasion of privacy, but this is only part of the story. Outing can cause severe psychological harm, it can lead to youth being expelled from their homes, and it can even get someone killed. It destroys lives. And yet WikiLeaks’ mantra of radical openness has seemingly begun to filter down to the culture at largeIn 10 countries around the world, being LGBT is not only a crime —  it is punishable by death.
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9. Nations mandating the execution of LGBT people include Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the same country where WikiLeaks forced gay men out of the closet. In March, Okaz, a newspaper in Jidda, reported that Saudi officials have recently sought to make discussing one’s sexuality on social media a death penalty offense. This decision follows a recent uptick in sting operations targeting gay men, with 35 criminal prosecutions for sodomy in a six-month period.
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11. In July, 19-year-old Hassan Afshar became the latest LGBT person put to death in Iran. Iranian officials claimed that the teenager, still in high school at the time of his arrest, raped another young man, even though Afshar’s parents insisted the sexual encounter was consensual. The distinction didn’t matter. The young man, who was denied access to a lawyer, was hanged July 18. Since 1979, reports estimate that  4,000 to 6,000 LGBT Iranians have been sent to the gallows because of their sexuality.
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13. Cases like Hassan’s have become more common in recent years, as LGBT people have been subject to an international backlash from conservative groups following recent gains in equality. In Indonesia’s Aceh province, ruled by sharia law, citizens are subjected to 100 lashes if found guilty of same-sex intercourse. The country’s high court is set to rule on whether to bring the penalty against homosexuality nationwide, which could mean up to 15 years in prison for those convicted. Ahead of that decision, Indonesia has sought to block access to all gay hookup apps, including Grindr, Blued and BoyAhoy.
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15. Even in the U.S., LGBT-identified people may choose not to disclose their sexuality to office mates or supervisors, in fear of being the victim of workplace discrimination. According to UCLA’s Williams Institute, between 15% and 43% of LGBT people have faced on-the-job harassment, with transgender employees most vulnerable. Despite the passage of marriage equality in 2015, you can still be fired in 28 U.S. states for being LGBT. These include Kansas, Mississippi, Idaho and Indiana.
16. Being outed can lead to job loss, but for youth, it can even mean living on the street — or worse. The Williams Institute of UCLA School of Law reports that 40% of homeless-youth service providers’ clients identify as LGBT, and a majority of them were kicked out of their homes because of their orientation or gender identity, the report says. 
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18. LGBT youth who face rejection from their community are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide than those who experienced acceptance. Nineteen-year-old Tyler Clementi, then a student at Rutgers, brought national attention to this issue in 2010 after his roommates filmed him having a sexual encounter with another man. Clementi, who was still coming to terms with his sexuality, took his own life after the video was put online. Sensitive subject matter requires great sensitivity.
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20. WikiLeaks’ mission is to expose government wrongdoing and corruption through radical transparency, promoting a culture of greater accountability. By forcibly outing LGBT people, though, the site has done the opposite—helped bigots, bullies and oppressive regimes everywhere.Hillary Clinton will likely recover just fine from these leaks and from future data dumps. Not everyone may be so lucky.