#Gay

"I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men."

"In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a)."

"My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."

"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back."

"Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much.""Dick. That's not what you said last night.""Bite me."

"We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality."

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope."

"Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights."

"What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship."

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

"There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up."

"But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself."

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."

"If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship."

"Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way."