An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an…

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.”

— Christopher Bram

“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”

— Christopher Bram

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 I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.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

“Art is long and life is short.”

— Christopher Bram

“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

“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

“Good prose is solitary work.”

— Christopher Bram

“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.”

— Christopher Bram

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

— Christopher Bram

“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.”

— Christopher Bram

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”

— Christopher Bram

“Everybody is Other in Maupin.”

— Christopher Bram

“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.”

— Christopher Bram

“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.”

— Christopher Bram