“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.” — 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
“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
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
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 I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.” — 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
“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
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
