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Had Quotes by Edmund White
- I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
- 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,…
- AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
- 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…
- Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old…
- New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
- 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…
- The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up…
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