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Gay Quotes by Edmund White
- In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as…
- If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until…
- The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage,…
- Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should…
- A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
- Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We…
- Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
- Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in…
- Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the…
- Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
- I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and…
- Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
- Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
- The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, thequeers of homosexuality. In fact, they are classic scapegoats.…
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- I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. — Tony Abbott