Rather than being lovers in order to breathe, we are queer…

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

— Dionysius Lardner

“To feeling no shame in fear, no doubt in survival, and no silence in anger.”

— Cristy C. Road

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on.…

— Jeremy Podeswa

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

— Allen Ginsberg

As a queer woman of colour I've been asked to be more urban, as if my brand of Blackness wasn't quite Black enough. I…

— Ariana DeBose

I was on MTV's 'Real World' at the time when 'Queer Eye' came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I…

— Karamo Brown

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman…

— Torrey Peters

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

— Dan Levy

“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with…

— Iain M. Banks

“Everyone knew that girls who admitted to liking girls stopped being whatever they were before and became a cross between a lumberjack and a…

— Robyn Ochs

“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating…

— Agatha Christie

“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from…

— Ashton Morgan

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

— Liv Bruce

Queer? Is this queer? These queer? What's up? What's up?

— Joe Dirt