If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.

Money is the petrol of life.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.

I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing

does it ever get easier?is there an end to these questions?do you have any answers?will you say them to me?can you stop this unraveling?will you bring me your closure?or am I the only onewho sees...

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...

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had...

So damn pigheaded. I’ve studied you, not to report you, Caspar, but because I want a relationship with you.

I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you’ve had a lot of practice, so I know you’re a good kisser.Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?

that is all that’s left when love has gone.

One can learn from what is not said.

You’re mine and I wouldn’t let you prostitute yourself for pizza. Now go put on a shirt,” I said, pulling two slices onto a plate.

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...

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.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

What I love about being queer is… Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions...

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as...

To all my friends who constantly talk disparagingly about the supposed ‘homosexual lifestyle’ and stereotype gay people and the community, I’d like to get this straight. There are essentially two worlds – the ‘gay scene’...

He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what...

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

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond,...

Tolerance is certainly an improvement over hate, but it is not the same thing as freedom.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

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...

There are worst things in life than kissing boys

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that...

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong...

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

It doesn’t matter where I am, or who I’m with . . . God, Caspar. I’ve dreamed about being with you.

Two guys jumped us on the way to get food,” Cameron answered. “Ty is like… a ninja on crack. He beat them up pretty spectacularly. Then we stole with their car.

For that is the curious quality of the discotheque after you have gone there a long time: in the midst of all the lights, and music, the bodies, the dancing, the drugs, you are stiller...

Don’t try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

Like take you home and fuck you up, down, and sideways,” heanswered, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I think you’ve got to get out whatever’s hurting you through your art, so it doesn’t twist you up inside.

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas – none of them bother me. I don’t care what banner they raise. But what I can’t stand are hollow people. When I’m with them I...

Oh, that sounds kinky. I want my safeword to be peaches,” I said, grinning.

We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it’s crazy! But then we were like, if they...

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived...

If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn’t automatically remove the shame and fear that’s kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages...

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives—for lives are static things, readings of already written papers—but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good...

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are...

The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?

I was doing my little stand up shtick, the one I did for pretty girls, so they’d like me quickly and wouldn’t try too hard to actually get to know me beyond my role as...

It is immensely gratifying to hear from fans from around the world where being a gay or lesbian teen, having feelings for someone of your own gender is simply not acceptable. We noticed that our...

Everyone’s got their own way of loving. There’s no such thing as ‘supposed to