“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay,… — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through… — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready… — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share
