About Quote by Edmund White

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White

By the mid-noughties, I found that I was no longer the only openly gay person in every setting. At one point, a couple of…

— Masha Gessen

“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for…

— Christopher Bram

There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to…

— Edmund White

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner gave me…

— Masha Gessen

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis

Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class. Gay life…

— Luc Sante

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— Edmund White

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what…

— Vestal McIntyre

If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay…

— Kevin Sessums

“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be our heroes.…

— Troy D. Perry