Discourses of non-heteronormative love have been substantial to the organization of LGBTQ movements in various social contexts, including Turkey. This paper explores the relationship between queer love and political space in Turkey by focusing on two distinct yet related uses of love in LGBTQ political discourse and agency: first, as a response to “hate crimes” against LGBTQ people, and second, as a claim to public visibility, social inclusion and sexual justice. In Turkey, this discursive focus on love has gained more widespread public attention during and after the Gezi protests, the time when the LGBTQ presence and visibility reached a remarkable point among different political platforms. Since then, there has been growing public recognition of LGBTQ lives and prevalent public circulation of LGBTQ political discourse, also involving slogans based on love. Some of these slogans have become highly popular (i.e. “-Where are you my love? - Here I am my love!”), marking love as an essential item in the LGBTQ political agenda. Focusing on these slogans and other uses of queer love within the LGBTQ movement in Istanbul, I trace the following questions: How does love define the political subject of the LGBTQ movement? How do LGBTQ activists deploy the notion of love to delineate the sites for social change, sexual justice and gender equality? What does discourse of love entail for political action in general and LGBTQ politics in particular? What kind of possibilities does it open (or foreclose)? What kind of a role does love play in LGBTQ people’s claims to gender and sexual justice? Last but not least, following bell hook’s (2001) formulation, how can we approach love as an action instead of seeing it as a feeling within the specific context of the LGBTQ movement in Turkey?