My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go...

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

Because it’s not your fault I’m straight. And it’s not your fault you’re attracted to me. If I can’t give you everything you want I can at least give you a birthday to remember, right?”...

She was sad and lost and alone in the dark,” Cecil said. “She needed somebody to hold her.””And you think she’s going to get tired of that?””You did,” Cecil said. “You shut me right out.””It...

With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.

You’re sadly fucked up. And really homo, too.”Jared scowled. “Bisexual, fuck you very much, and unless I yank your dong it’s none of your business anyway.

Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside...

It’s difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass–or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses–can really make a difference for, say,...

Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

The thing is we never needed anyone’s consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging our...

Sometimes life takes unexpected turns. Sometimes we hide the very core of our existence because we fear the judgment of others. Sometimes the universe shifts and we are provided with a brief moment to begin...

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…

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find...

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

For the fact was drugs were not necessary to most of us, because the music, youth, sweaty bodies were enough. And if it was too hot, too humid to sleep the next day, and we...

But my point is, homosexual is genetic. ‘Gay’ is a choice. ‘Gay’ is the admitting to yourself that you are not only homosexual, but you embrace it. You find joy in it. You’re thankful for...

She had traveled to more cities, had experienced more scenes, than anyone she knew, and still she had come away from it all with only an abysmal sense of dissatisfaction. When would it all begin,...

People like to say being gay isn’t like skin color, isn’t anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.But if that’s true, why do they always find us?

I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can’t choose who we love. We just love...

I am not here to entertain straight people.

Look, Blondie. I’m not asking you to bottom, just to fucking navigate.

Never forget that all these people are primarily a visual people. They are designers, window dressers, models, photographers, graphic artists. They design the windows at Saks. Do you understand? They are a visual people, and...

THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES....

Hi honey, I’m home! Take your pants off!” Wesley announced. He kissed my cheek as he passed me and put his lunch container in the sink.

I needed you desperately and you gave me the most incredible pleasure. And when I tried to hide from you…when I thought you didn’t want me…you showed me how wrong I was.” Grayson smiled as...

Cecil reached for Dave, but Dave stepped back. “Dave, why are you doing this? You’re not getting paid. Lovejoy called you off the case. You want the truth? You’re compulsive. You can’t leave it alone....

Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgendered people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of...

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

Ma vision de l’amour n’a pas changé, mais ma vision du monde, oui. C’est super agréable d’être lesbienne. Je me sens moins concernée par la féminité, par l’approbation des hommes, par tous ces trucs qu’on...

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it’s destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family...

Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July.

Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even...

ally” who can’t stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.

If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren’t invited.

Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you. I have surrendered my whole individuality, the very essence of my being to you. I have given you my body...

Living for beauty is all very fine, but it’s a hard regimen and burns up the heart very quickly.

He’s such a prude,” Toby said rolling his eyes.

Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn’t give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.

Happiness.” Isnt that cool?

Max is a marvel to us. He will never have to come out because he will never have been kept in. Even though he has a mom and a dad, they made sure from the...

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...

For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.

For the first time I had the best of both worlds–a mission to live for and a man to love.

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...

Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.

Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand – to begin with – how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes,...

Mm-hmm.