Breadth Quote by Vestal McIntyre

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

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 set out to write a series of grand stories starring queer people. My vision has always been to let that "queerness" exist organically…

— Hazel Blackthorn

Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they…

— Kathryn Hughes

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums

I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself,…

— Christopher Rice

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 are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are…

— Garth Greenwell

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And I think…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive…

— Wilson Cruz

A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get to play…

— E. R. Fightmaster

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