The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

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

… I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words...

There is a secret layer of humanity that lies just beneath the surface of man, a secret layer where our fears and insecurities hide, that when touched in this secret place men and woman are...

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as ‘gay’? If we don’t,...

Joshua tried to find the right words to explain how things were–how they’d always been. “It’s like… prairie dogs.”Ben quirked an eyebrow at him.”You see the holes. ‘N’ you know the dogs are around, even...

Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens...

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.

He loved you.

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, ‘What’s up? I’m gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.’ I don’t feel like I’m...

I’ve just fallen in love with you. What is your name, and please tell me you’re gay?

Baby, you’re so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.

This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that romantically practical Teuton who used to murmur to Pablo, between sleeping and waking, a...

The body is the garden of the soul.

Make no mistake, hiding one’s true self away in a closet and creating a facade of heterosexuality is not without its consequences. It may appear to have a degree of safety but from my experience...

During those snowy New England winters, besides learning to rise at five to study calculus and trudge two miles through the drifts for breakfast down the road, he had suppressed some tremendous element in himself...

Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake–you know, to send the right message to kids.

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

Take this fucking thing off me!” he demanded. “Good morning to you too, Nick,” Damian said mildly. He unlocked the door without haste and went to his office, Nick dogging his every footstep.”Did you –?””I...

Never underestimate the naughtiness factor.

Anything.

Never boyfriends? You’ve NEVER been in LOVE?”As I shake my head no, I look out the window, yearning to see Cole’s sun-filled eyes again looking into mine.”Don’t worry,” Tiger said. “Love isn’t easy- and it...

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.

If she understood the difference between referring to me as “the gay guy” and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.

I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed...

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture – broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp – has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where...

It’s hard being gay in Edwardian times.

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who’d just smoked a...

I don’t believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians...

Gay men! And it’s incest! With the same face!

Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your...

I, faggot Wenqing Kang, Ph. D. in History from UC Santa Cruz, do solemnly swear that homosexual relationships between men are more enjoyable and more harmonious than heterosexual relationships.

Hey, suit guy!” The man bellowed. Chris bit back the urge to yell. He turned, expecting to be confronted by a hand held out for money. What he saw was a pair of enormous eyes,...

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

It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Brody’s not gay. But then he kisses a boy. So he might be gay? No, Brody’s not gay. But he loves this boy. So after much delaying, debating, and waiting, the answer comes clear…nothing is...

Are you the right person?” Lachlan wondered, as he took a half step forward.Cormag took a deep breath and brushed at a strand of hair that was sticking out at a funny angle from behind...

Oh-” I rest my back against the door to my apartment and purr as I slide down to the floor. “I need to get a tux too.” “GREAT. We’ll stop at the Tux Boutique tomorrow…...

You can stop waiting, you know,’ she says. ‘For what?’ ‘For God to strike you down.

D stared out the window, shoving down the feeling that it might be real nice to sit here and tell Jack Francisco everything about himself, confess things he’d never told nobody, just to feel like...

People think they know who I am, because I’ve played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that’s me.

God will save you!” treating him like the devil’s child.It was the first time I’ve ever doubted God. First time I’ve ever heard the terms ‘Gays, and ‘Queers.’ I went through a lot in my...

There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, ‘real men’, and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, ‘fake men’, and there are others who wants neither the...

If I was gay, I wouldn’t need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a...

He turned around, suddenly concerned. “Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I’d rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you’re pregnant. Then we’ll deal. Whatever it is, we’ll deal. Are you pregnant?

I’d never criticize gay people for being gay. That would be the same thing as criticizing someone for having brown eyes, as far as I’m concerned.

Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!

…let me say, on behalf of the entire gay male community, we hate your fucking guts ’cause you landed him. Share, you selfish bastard.