Art Quote by Robert Black

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

— John Piper

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be our heroes.…

— Troy D. Perry

“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a suitable form…

— Joan Nestle

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come…

— David Hockney

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive…

— Lance Loud

“The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.”

— Christopher Bram

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class. Gay life…

— Luc Sante

“There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of…

— Simon LeVay

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

— Eric C. Wat

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett