Back Quote by Violet Chachki

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from…

— Todd Haynes

“The whole set of stylizations that are known as "camp" (a word that I was hearing then for the first time) was, in 1926,…

— Quentin Crisp

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

“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for…

— Christopher Bram

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

When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see…

— Quentin Crisp

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

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Where I come from, camp was kind of looked down upon because the drag queens that I grew up with took themselves so seriously.

— Violet Chachki

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

“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such…

— Richard Dunphy

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.”

— Charles Dickens