Last Word.

People say the queerest things.

COMPILED BY RHUARIDH MARR

This act is absolutely revolting and inhumane and proves yet again he is unfit to lead.

—HRC President ALPHONSO DAVID, responding to news that Donald Trump is delaying stimulus checks intended to aid those impacted by coronavirus in order to have his name put on them. “This economic hurricane has disproportionately impacted marginalized groups, including LGBTQ people, who more often find themselves in industries that have completely shut down or dramatically scaled back staff and pay,” David said, noting that “Trump is delaying this much needed, vital resource for his own personal vanity.”

Virginia now stands as a beacon of fairness, inclusivity and diversity. Virginia is now fully open for business.

—Lambda Legal CEO KEVIN JENNINGS, after Virginia became the first Southern state to enact protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people. “As a proud native son of the South...I know the commonwealth is sending a powerful message of inclusion and possibility throughout the region,” Jennings said. “As importantly, as a former teacher, I know that message will be especially meaningful and life-affirming for young people.”

I want to know how you’re going to stop my loved ones from dying. I don’t need a campaign video, Mr. President.

—DON LEMON, speaking on CNN after Donald Trump used his coronavirus briefing on Monday to play a campaign video touting a heavily edited narrative of his response to the pandemic. Lemon recently lost a friend to the virus, gay philanthropist Robby Browne. “How are you going to keep friends and loved ones from dying?” Lemon said. “It is crystal clear from what happened today what the president’s top priority is, defending himself rather than focusing on the health and well-being of the American people.”

I don’t want to see trans and queer folks slip through the cracks while everyone else is receiving so much help and attention.

—Pose star INDYA MOORE, speaking to Vogue about a COVID-19 relief fund they established that has donated more than $20,000 to the black trans and queer community. “A lot of people don’t understand why I am prioritizing trans folk specifically,” Moore said, “but as a trans person, I know that we’re the last to be checked on if we’re even lucky to be checked on at all, during a pandemic, a crisis, a war.”

They told me: ‘We know where you got HIV. You’re gay.’ I told them that it’s not true. But they kept beating me.

—A gay man who fled Turkmenistan and sought asylum in Europe, speaking to Radio Free Europe after police arrested him for being HIV-positive and forced him to confess to being gay. The man, who contracted HIV while attending university in Russia, said police found him after he sought medical treatment in Turkmenistan. Homosexuality is illegal in Turkmenistan, and rather than go to prison the man left and made his way to Russia, and then applied for asylum in Europe.