Available Quote by Kevin Sessums

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 am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

— 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

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

— Edmund White

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

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

“The chain booksellers, like Barnes and Noble, began to dominate the market, and they instituted a “gay and lesbian” section in many of their…

— Sarah Schulman

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

— Sarah Schulman

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

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

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

— Martin McDonagh

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

— Ryan Murphy