Complaining Quote by Ishmael Reed

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to…

— Roger Ross Williams

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I…

— Tyler Oakley

I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the…

— Cleve Jones

A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

— Jens Spahn

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

Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even…

— Stephen McCauley

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

— Roger Ross Williams

I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect. And since…

— Bayard Rustin

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who…

— Coretta Scott King

“['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia”

— Eric C. Wat

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

— Tulsi Gabbard