“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Gay 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 Gay Copy Share Image
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Gay 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 I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.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… — Christopher Bram Boy scout 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 Gay 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 Gay Copy Share Image
“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.” — Christopher Bram Gay-writers Copy Share Image
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life. — Christopher Bram Ability Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Gay Copy Share Image
“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.” — Christopher Bram Books 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 Gay Copy Share Image
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.” — Christopher Bram Oppression 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 Allen-ginsberg Copy Share Image
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram Art Copy Share Image
“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.” — Christopher Bram Electric light Copy Share Image
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.” — Christopher Bram Gay Copy Share Image
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.” — Christopher Bram Armistead-maupin 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 Books 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs . There was the sexual and jokey (a… — Christopher Bram Gay-writers Copy Share Image
