Closet Quote by Grace Perry

“I understood intersectionality—the way that white supremacy props up patriarchy props up poverty props up environmental destruction props up white supremacy again—on a gut…

— Jacob Tobia

“The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.”

— Christopher Hitchens

My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

— Ezra Furman

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

— Aldous Huxley

When I was growing up, it was like, 'Gay means flamboyant, gay man' and lesbian means, 'Butch girl who looks masculine.' There was not…

— Chappell Roan

It's crushing to realize you actually don't have control over what people think of you, and even as much as you think you do...…

— Cole Escola

“I really am the world's shittiest boyfriend. Holding onto something normal for the sake of having it, for nothing other than to keep what…

— Kelley York

“In the end, how [is] anyone any different from a 'normal' person? If you love someone, you love them. It doesn't matter where they…

— Abigail Tarttelin

“The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the…

— David Levithan

“However some things may look queer to you, remember that the world is a beautiful rainbow with many colours! No colours, no rainbow! No…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting…

— Todd Haynes