You’ve read the books. You’re shopping queer-owned brands. You’re saying no to rainbow washing and you’re ready to march at the Pride Parade. Now, here are 55 Pride Month quotes from activists, actors, authors and other luminaries who said it best. Use them as a fitting Instagram caption or simply read on and be inspired by the likes of James Baldwin, Rachel Maddow, Lady Gaga and Harvey Milk.
55 Pride Month Quotes That Inspire, Encourage and Uplift
![pride month quotes: 1. “Love is never wrong.”— Melissa Etheridge](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_1.png?fit=680%2C860)
1. “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge
![pride month quotes: “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” — Tennessee Williams](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_2.png?fit=680%2C860)
2. “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” — Tennessee Williams
![pride month quotes: “There are worst things in life than kissing boys.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_3.png?fit=680%2C860)
3. “There are worst things in life than kissing boys.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
![pride month quotes: “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_4.png?fit=680%2C860)
4. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
![pride month quotes: “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizen of this country.” — Zachary Quinto](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_5.png?fit=680%2C860)
5. “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizen of this country.” — Zachary Quinto
![pride month quotes: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_6.png?fit=680%2C860)
6. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
![pride month quotes: “I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.” — Portia de Rossi](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_7.png?fit=680%2C860)
7. “I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.” — Portia de Rossi
![pride month quotes: “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_8.png?fit=680%2C860)
8. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings
![pride month quotes: “When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_9.png?fit=680%2C860)
9. “When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
![pride month quotes: “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” — James Baldwin](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_10.png?fit=680%2C860)
10. “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” — James Baldwin
![pride month quotes: “Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.” — Amandla Stenberg](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_11.png?fit=680%2C860)
11. “Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.” — Amandla Stenberg
![pride month quotes: “This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?” — Lady Gaga](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_12.png?fit=680%2C860)
12. “This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?” — Lady Gaga
![pride month quotes: “All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more—and no less—heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to ‘fix what ain’t right’ in our society.” — Tammy Baldwin](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_13.png?fit=680%2C860)
13. “All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more—and no less—heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to ‘fix what ain’t right’ in our society.” — Tammy Baldwin
![pride month quotes: “When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” — Barack Obama](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_14.png?fit=680%2C860)
14. “When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” — Barack Obama
![pride month quotes: Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.” — Bob Paris](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_15.png?fit=680%2C860)
15. “Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.” — Bob Paris
![pride month quotes: “But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint.” — Truman Capote](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_16.png?fit=680%2C860)
16. “But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint.” — Truman Capote
![pride month quotes: “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.” — Elliot Page](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_17.png?fit=680%2C860)
17. “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.” — Elliot Page
![pride month quotes: “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them, ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” — Brenda Howard](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_18.png?fit=680%2C860)
18. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them, ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” — Brenda Howard
![pride month quotes: “My silence had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” — Audre Lorde](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_19.png?fit=680%2C860)
19. “My silence had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” — Audre Lorde
![pride month quotes: “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an a**hole.” — Morgan Freeman](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_20.png?fit=680%2C860)
20. “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an a**hole.” — Morgan Freeman
![pride month quotes: “And if you help elect... more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.” — Harvey Milk](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_21.png?fit=680%2C860)
21. “And if you help elect...more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.” — Harvey Milk
![pride month quotes: “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”— Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_22.png?fit=680%2C860)
22. “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”— Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
![pride month quotes: “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” — Rita Mae Brown](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_23.png?fit=680%2C860)
23. “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” — Rita Mae Brown
![pride month quotes: “What I preach is: people fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” — Miley Cyrus](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_24.png?fit=680%2C860)
24. “What I preach is: people fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” — Miley Cyrus
![pride month quotes: “The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I’m gay.” — Troy Perry](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_25.png?fit=680%2C860)
25. “The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I’m gay.” — Troy Perry
![pride month quotes: “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.” — Rachel Maddow](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_26.png?fit=680%2C860)
26. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.” — Rachel Maddow
![pride month quotes: “If a transvestite doesn’t say ‘I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite,’ then nobody else is going to hop up there and say ‘I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite’ for them.” — Marsha P. Johnson](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_27.png?fit=680%2C860)
27. “If a transvestite doesn’t say ‘I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite,’ then nobody else is going to hop up there and say ‘I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite’ for them.” — Marsha P. Johnson
![pride month quotes: “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_28.png?fit=680%2C860)
28. “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
![pride month quotes: “I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” — Chaz Bono](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_29.png?fit=680%2C860)
29. “I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” — Chaz Bono
![pride month quotes: “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” — George Takei](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_30.png?fit=680%2C860)
30. “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” — George Takei
![pride month quotes: “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_31.png?fit=680%2C860)
31. “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe
![pride month quotes: “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” — Larry Kramer](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_32.png?fit=680%2C860)
32. “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” — Larry Kramer
![pride month quotes: “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” — Chris Colfer](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_33.png?fit=680%2C860)
33. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” — Chris Colfer
![pride month quotes: “Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.” — Alaric Hutchinson](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_34.png?fit=680%2C860)
34. “Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.” — Alaric Hutchinson
![pride month quotes: “Being born gay, Black and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, Black female is.” — Lena Waithe](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_35.png?fit=680%2C860)
35. “Being born gay, Black and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, Black female is.” — Lena Waithe
![pride month quotes: “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_36.png?fit=680%2C860)
36. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
![pride month quotes: “You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” — Gertrude Stein](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_37.png?fit=680%2C860)
37. “You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” — Gertrude Stein
![pride month quotes: “Hope will never be silent.” — Harvey Milk](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_38.png?fit=680%2C860)
38. “Hope will never be silent.” — Harvey Milk
![pride month quotes: “Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.” — Sir Ian McKellen](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_39.png?fit=680%2C860)
39. “Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.” — Sir Ian McKellen
![pride month quotes: “We are powerful because we have survived.” — Audre Lorde](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_40.png?fit=680%2C860)
40. “We are powerful because we have survived.” — Audre Lorde
![pride month quotes: “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” — Ernest J. Gaines](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_41.png?fit=680%2C860)
41. “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” — Ernest J. Gaines
![pride month quotes: “I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.” — Anderson Cooper](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_42.png?fit=680%2C860)
42. “I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.” — Anderson Cooper
![pride month quotes: “Gays are not interested in making other people gay…but homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.” — Stephen Fry](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_43.png?fit=680%2C860)
43. “Gays are not interested in making other people gay…but homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.” — Stephen Fry
![pride month quotes: “Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.” — Pete Buttigieg](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_44.png?fit=680%2C860)
44. “Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.” — Pete Buttigieg
![pride month quotes: “I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.” — Stan Lee](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_45.png?fit=680%2C860)
45. “I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.” — Stan Lee
![pride month quotes: “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.” — Janet Mock](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_46.png?fit=680%2C860)
46. “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.” — Janet Mock
![pride month quotes 47 2](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_47_2.png?fit=680%2C860)
47. “I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself—to my friends, to my family, to myself—trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.” — Halsey
![pride month quotes: “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_48.png?fit=680%2C860)
48. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
![pride month quotes: “Love doesn’t care how much money you have. It doesn’t care who your parents are. It doesn’t care if you’re gay, straight, or transgender.” — Rumer Willis](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_49.png?fit=680%2C860)
49. “Love doesn’t care how much money you have. It doesn’t care who your parents are. It doesn’t care if you’re gay, straight, or transgender.” — Rumer Willis
![pride month quotes: “We are not actually equal—humanity—if we are not allowed to freely love one another.” — Lady Gaga](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_50.png?fit=680%2C860)
50. “We are not actually equal—humanity—if we are not allowed to freely love one another.” — Lady Gaga
![pride month quotes: “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” — Tammy Baldwin](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_51.png?fit=680%2C860)
51. “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” — Tammy Baldwin
![pride month quotes: “Gay, straight, bi, whatever—it doesn’t matter. Love is love.” — Amber Liu](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_52.png?fit=680%2C860)
52. “Gay, straight, bi, whatever—it doesn’t matter. Love is love.” — Amber Liu
![pride month quotes: “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_53.png?fit=680%2C860)
53. “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin
![pride month quotes: “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.” — John Lennon](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_54.png?fit=680%2C860)
54. “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.” — John Lennon
![pride month quotes: “Gay rights are human rights.” — Hillary Clinton](https://publish.purewow.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pride-month-quotes_55.png?fit=680%2C860)