In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers’ wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip...

It’s a curious, wanting thing.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to...

Acknowledging that my biological imperative may not include the drive to procreate, that I just might be attracted to XX chromosomes instead of XY? That’s so stupid-minor in comparison to the fact that I might...

They were Catholic, my lovers,All in an access of crossing themselves,Particularly their fingersBehind their suspendered backs–And that was the women.

After the first couple weeks, when all your sex toys had met all my sex toys, …

I already know you´re gay” he said. “You don´t even know what that means.””It means you love Sarah.

No. I don´t think it does go away. I know it won´t for me. I will keep busy. I will distract myself. I will eventually have days when I don´t have to remind myself to...

I can’t miss you.

We do not choose the one we fall in love with, and our perception of happiness is our own and is determined by what we experience…

I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head, a velvet coat, ice-skates – I must have been remembering some picture. I imagined myself...

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

I seek a woman, the woman of my desires. Who won’t be scared by loyalty and truth, nor turn away from the darkness of a soiled past. – Decades

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.

[Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

[A]t least since the late nineteenth century when the primary role in categorising sexual behaviour and naming what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘perverse’ passed, in most industrial societies, from the religious to the medical...

I don’t think she’s a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.

Does it go away?” she asks. “Missing each other?” I think about how much I missed Maman. I still do, though it isn´t as acute as it once was. “A little bit,” I whisper.”Enough so...

Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that’s my trouble. I feel so lost out here…hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty...

Stop wiggling – you’ll move when I move you.

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the...

I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.

You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.

Left to faggots and their defenders, all our forefathers, eminent ancestors and international heroes were either homosexual or bisexual.

I need a drink.

Before you echo ‘Amen’ in your home or place of worship, think and remember…a child is listening.

I’ve had more difficulty accepting myself as bisexual than I ever did accepting that I was a lesbian. It felt traitorous. A few years ago, I admitted to myself that I was still interested in...