Doe Quote by Garth Greenwell

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay…

— Damian Barr

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

— Sarah Schulman

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask…

— Joe Mantello

I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.

— Luis Negron

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who…

— Michelle Tea

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

— Edmund White

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men.…

— Mike O'Malley

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

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

— Abdellah Taia

You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters that I'm…

— Michael Cunningham

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed