Lgbt-literature Quote by Jonathan Ned Katz Download Open image ““The closet encouraged reading.”” — Jonathan Ned Katz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lgbt-literature Reading
“The closet is a powerful thing. It makes you accept things you never thought you would in order to preserve the facade that you… — Sean Kennedy Copy Share Image
“...as a child, I was an avid reader. And despite reading hundreds of books about straight people, I did not grow up to embrace… — Lesléa Newman Copy Share Image
“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I was on a kick of reading nothing but gay romance because I was in a bit of a sexual slump, unless you count… — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“There was my life before I told a strange woman in a negligee that I was a homosexual, and now there would be my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“My closeted desire for marriage and a family were things I actually wanted. And” — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
“I formulated a theory about him being a closet fundamentalist with a deep-seated guilt about being gay.” — Fabian Black Copy Share Image
“Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.” — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
“Here's a queer fact: none among the skeletons in your closet are ‘straight’ so expect them to ‘come out’ very, very soon...” — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.” — Kevin Smokler Copy Share Image
“We name and talk of a problematic ‘transvestism,’ the desire to dress in the clothes of the other sex. We do not usually name… — Jonathan Ned Katz Copy Share Image
“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant,… — Jonathan Ned Katz Copy Share Image
“I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Thereafter, they met up at off times, after practices or on the terrace of the pavilion when nightly feasts were breaking up, in what… — Andrew J. Peters Copy Share Image
“Find the Seventh Sister, And the girl shall be, Your spiritual guardian, For eternity.” — Andrew J. Peters Copy Share Image
“I want you forever. I will always be with you. I will always love you. I will love, honor, and cherish you for all… — Katrina "Adrian" Miller Copy Share Image
“You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit , why should you be gay to read a gay book?” — Adriano Bulla Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The memories were strange clingy things like burrs knotted in his hair. He could choose to let them be, he only felt them when… — Andrew J. Peters Copy Share Image
“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured to the… — Circa24 Copy Share Image
