A midst deceit I found the truth;there in the rough I found a diamond.And from the moment we met,I think of no one elseToday I choose to be, to live and breathe;to dream, to weep,...

The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that…It will need great courage but it will be done, because all...

Peter to Austin:”Hard-ons don’t make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.

Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.

Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed … a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before … It was absolute...

The same could be said of you,” Ignatius reminded him, thinking of a forced seduction by chicken.

Nothing. I just need you,” I whispered and flopped into a nearby recliner.

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

I am not here to entertain straight people.

Tell me something good about your life,” I whispered, needing to hear that he wasn’t as broken as I thought him to be.Peter breathed into the handset for about two minutes. I began wondering if...

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

When you’re sure of what you want, I’ll be right here.

You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip?

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn’t have many role models of our own–we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because...

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering...

If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

You can’t know what it is like for us now–you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can’t know what it was like for us then–you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful...

There’s a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country’s educational system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest....

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where...

Unerringly locating Riley’s dick in his loose dress pants, Jack grabbed it forcefully and leaned close to Riley’s ear, hearing the quick indrawn breath from his husband. A spark of lust flashed through his own...

‘I’m sorry,’ he says. ‘I don’t usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it’s happening.’

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it’s ‘black actor,’ a ‘gay actor’ or ‘anything actor,’ Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where...

I’ve lived in this world a long time, and you can’t change what you like, even if you’d want to.

Riley paused, turning back to face Jack. “Just so you know, we are gonna need some definite PDAs tonight.Think you can handle that?” There was irritation in Riley’s voice, a subtle change, a certain stress....

Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like...

I’m going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I’m a witchAccused

He unbuckled his beltand pulled off his blue jeans and boxers. I guess I had forgotten hisactual size and I blushed at the sight of him. This was gonna hurt.

but I played this piece in a tiny church once. It was like God was there with me, speaking through me.”When Jason remained silent, Jules leaned forward and kissed him lightly on the lips. At...

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms,...

As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic...

Nobody does,” I assure him.

Day drag.” Ashley answered simply. “The sun turns vampires into dust and drag queens into this.” He motioned with his hand down his body.

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

The Bible is still the only dirty book I’ve ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred...

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That’s all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesand so the code-breaker was brokenand we’re sorryyes now the s-word has been spokenthe official conscience woken– very...

scientifically.

plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was...