We’re all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in...

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

The word bisexual had stood out so bright and clear in my head that all else had ceased to exist. Bisexual. I had a word. I understood; it was me… a nice clear label that...

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own...

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need...

It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but evidently I haven’t grown out of this experience. His name,...

You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

When I date women now, I have learned to simply not care what they think about it. I’m the same person I always have been. Faithful. Dependable. Kind. Sweet. Funny. Awesome. And if they want...

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal.

I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I...

Fin da piccole sapevano quanto poco valore il mondo attribuisse ai libri, e non perdevano tempo a leggerli. Mentre io, anche adesso, continuo a credere che quei puntini neri su fondo bianco abbiano il più...

And for a moment I though I would tell her, that it would be the easiest and the slightest thing imaginable- that after all, if anyone would understand it, she would. That I need only...

Shock? More like shellshock at this point. Blondie knew I was gay, yet he was a Company Exec or else he wouldn’t be here. I was his butt boy in the worst possible way.When I...

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.

I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the fact that my boyfriend was a pervert. He was lucky he was so cute.

No. Not thateither. But it makes it hard for me to keep my distance. You’re stunning. Inside and out,” he claimed, with chocolatey eyes that said he meant every word.

Sentencing enhancements won’t get police to investigate crimes they don’t take seriously to begin with. They won’t stop police from harassing trans women on the street because they assume all trans women are sex workers....

After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy’s first invitation, and what the trouble had...

The different strategies and visions of ‘reformists’ and ‘radicals’ are not the only subject of major debate within lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer politics. The fact is that only a tiny minority of non-heterosexuals are...

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.

There are those from religious backgrounds who resist and oppose LGBT equality; some very obsessively and publicly. They make bold accusations and negative statements about gay and lesbian people, their supposed “lifestyle” and relationships. But...

Tomorrow the rush of men, all working for a living, would drown him; but now, at this moment, in this soft green twilight, this soft green Sunday evening, when the heart of the world seemed...

But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. – about being gay from the film Love My Life

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

…when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.

Frankly, I’m not responsible for other people’s perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people’s...

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

I am Shakti, as well as Shiva. I am everything male and female, light and dark, flesh and spirit. Perfectly balanced in one single moment lasting an eternity…

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...