Homosexuality Quotes by Edmund White

12 Homosexuality quotes by Edmund White

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Edmund White’s twelve lines on this subject feel like a quiet conversation with a seasoned writer. The brevity doesn’t diminish the nuance he brings from a lifetime of storytelling.

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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a…

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Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the…

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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people…

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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd…

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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so…

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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive…

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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization…

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The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they…

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The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, thequeers of homosexuality. In fact, they…

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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as…

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From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

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