Gay Quotes

We have probably all seen teachers who would pick a student up by the scruff of the neck for saying ‘Shit,’ but who would walk by without a word when overhearing that same student taunting a classmate, calling him a ‘fag.’ It is often easier not to intervene — even when there is a clear-cut victim. It’s out in the hall. It isn’t our business. It isn’t our problem.But our inactions, like our actions, define who we are and what are true values are.

~ Richard H. Eyster

Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.

~ Jojo Moyes

There comes a point where you become tired of the loneliness and need a human touch, a caress to make you realize you still exist as a person.

~ Felice Stevens

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

~ Paul Monette

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of cultural confusion that one had to recover from again and again: that accepting your sexual identity doesn’t necessarily mean that the wider LGBT community, with its own preconceived notions of what constitutes a valid queer identity, will embrace you any more welcomingly than your own prejudiced kinsfolk do.

~ Diriye Osman

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

~ Mary Griffith

I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.

~ Perry Moore

Now do you understand why I'm interested in you? You're a locked door, sweetheart. You give no one a key and you never answer the door when anyone knocks...Ah, but sometimes, sometimes I get a peek through the keyhole and what I find there...It's like glimpsing you as you're stripping. Underneath all of that darkness is something hungry, something desperate, something, oh, so deliciously vulnerable.

~ Tricia Owens

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

~ Michel Tremblay

Therese leaned closer toward it, looking down at her glass. She wanted to thrust the table aside and spring into her arms, to bury her nose in the green and gold scarf that was tied close about her neck. Once the backs of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese’s skin there felt separately alive now, and rather burning.

~ Patricia Highsmith

I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we're nothing more than friends. The first time I touched you with sexual intention, it was like an electrical current flowing through my fingertips and it paralyzed me. I wanted to make your senses go numb with pleasure. Not only physical pleasure, but desire too, deep inside.

~ Yonezou Nekota

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

~ Jon Michaelsen

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won’t get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin’ bag.

~ Jon Michaelsen

It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but evidently I haven’t grown out of this experience. His name, his voice, his face, his laugh - anything was enough to make my heart start beating faster. It’s the spark.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.

~ Josephine Angelini

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. How would you know?

~ Laura Ruby

You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...)

~ Tara Lain

It says adult prison on the gates, not Hogwarts. Now, get in and say hi to your new housmate.

~ Dean Cole

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

~ Christopher Bram

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

~ Christopher Bram

Art is long and life is short.

~ Christopher Bram

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

~ Christopher Bram

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

~ Christopher Bram

Trust the tale, not the teller.

~ Christopher Bram

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

~ Christopher Bram

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

~ Christopher Bram

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

~ Christopher Bram

Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

~ Christopher Bram

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

~ Christopher Bram

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

~ Christopher Bram

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

~ Christopher Bram

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

~ Christopher Bram

A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.

~ Christopher Bram

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

~ Christopher Bram

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

~ Christopher Bram

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

~ Christopher Bram

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

~ Christopher Bram

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

~ Christopher Bram

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

~ Christopher Bram

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

~ Christopher Bram