Quotes About Community

My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.

It is very important that people understand how important flamenco is to the Gypsy community. There have been some amazing Gypsy artists. It's important that we give visibility to that, but at the same time people have to be fair and recognise that Paco de Lucia was the biggest guitar player in this style of music in the world and he wasn't Gypsy.

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.

Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.

It feels like for a long time we, in the LGBTQ community, have been fighting for our role, sort of fighting for our visibility and fighting for our stories.

I think the first step towards exploring the unexplored side of the LGBTQ community is to show them on screen, to create a visibility.

I've always done what was asked of me for a social cause. Tried to bring visibility to issues of health and education.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with that person. This was way before the Internet and all the visibility that has brought with it.

Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be.

There's so much visibility for trans people, for gay men and lesbians, but there's still not a lot for bisexual people.

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.

Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.

There's so many different identities out there and I think they all deserve some visibility.

The 'Transtastic' hat represents what I want to do with my life's work, combining my experience and visibility to improve the lives of other people and bring their often-overlooked stories to the media forefront.

The amount of people online who game is huge. It's a community that's not very visible but is in full force.

A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a lack of visible community policing.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.