Being Quote by Stephen McCauley

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

— Edmund White

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that…

— Jane Rule

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

I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind…

— Noelle Stevenson

“One of the problems in mainstreaming queer characters is that people think in order to get a character accepted, they have to be totally…

— Anonymous

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

— Haaz Sleiman

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

— Casey Wilson

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight…

— Edmund White

We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend…

— Peter Paige