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“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t you take…

— Bill Maher

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

— Manila Luzon

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

“Gay people represent art. Start allowing gay people to be beaten in the street then you allow art to be beaten in the street.…

— Robert Black

“The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.”

— Christopher Bram

“The different strategies and visions of ‘reformists’ and ‘radicals’ are not the only subject of major debate within lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer politics.…

— Richard Dunphy

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models.…

— Edmund White

“We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

— Richard Dawkins

For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about…

— Gale Harold

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and…

— Tony Kushner

A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.

— Shannon Purser