[Two respondents] minimized the assimilationist implications of the dominant account; Russ Silver rejects the idea entirely.I have no interest in being accepted. I consider this system corrupt, and I don’t want to be accepted by...

For even now the drums were in our blood, we sat forward almost hearing them across the bay, and the van raced on through the streets so that the driver could hustle back for another...

Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for,...

The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through “Sleeping Beauty” that I met my first love, Ivar. He was a six-year-old bello...

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

If you don’t know for sure, then what’s the big thing about trying stuff out?” Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn’t have any of...

I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay.

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth — but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so...

Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression

When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?

I’m here for you. I exist only for you. Tell me what you want me to do and I’ll do it.

I’m sorry, but we can’t carry that book because it’s so Jewish and some people in my school don’t agree with Jewish culture,” I would protest until I reached my last gasp. Prohibiting gay books...

Because Honestlyis it trashyto want something so badyou go for iteven if it might kill you?My opinion?It’s judging that’s trashy.Bad enough the world looks at usunder a (distorted) microscope.Like the good Lord says,we don’t need...

This is a team of gay dudes, isn’t it?”What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?

That’s an insult, not a pet name.

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear;...

that gay people secrete everything in each other’s presence but tears?

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

John alzò di riflesso gli occhi a quelle parole, una luce fiera e innamorata li animava. Non si sentiva più smarrito: per la prima volta in tanto tempo, aveva compreso d’aver incontrato il comandante del...

You don’t deserve the anger you’re turning on yourself. Your abuser’s the one who does.

The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come...

Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood enough about my condition to know it was something I’d better keep private....

if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can’t one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body’s print might rest still warm beside my own.Until the next day I did not go to bathe,...

Try not to be self-conscious […] or so critical. Don’t mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love...

We all have lips.” Perhaps that is what we all had in common: no one was allowed to be serious, except about the importance of music, the glory of faces seen in the crowd. We...

I’ve always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in...

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.

Some actors wear their roles like clothing,” he said. “No matter what part they’re playing, you can always easily see who it is beneath the costume.””It’s how drag queens do women, darling,” volunteered the elegant...

Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don’t guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With...

That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She...

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

You don’t need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book?

Don’t rely on others to speak for you. It would be a miracle that anything got done in the world.

Konnor said a silent prayer and made his move. He slid his hand over the curve of Grayson’s neck and took the gigantic leap into the unknown. He kissed him.A few braincells died the moment...

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

The Santa Ana Windgusts downdesert canyons.Hot. Dry. Electric.Some say it ignites tempers.I say it ignited us.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

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 personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn’t distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what...

The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets...

Remember that you don’t owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.

Benjamin non gli stava sorridendo solo con le labbra, ma anche con gli occhi, le braccia e tutto il resto del corpo. Il capitano era lì ed era venuto per lui, pronto ad accoglierlo con...

Then they began saying, “Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury.” Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting...

Let’s make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the...

‘Jane’s World’ has pushed the boundaries for mainstream comic strips: girls have kissed, punched each other, have been abducted by aliens, taken steamy showers together and turned into monkeys. Jane has been through a lot...

A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for...