“ Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain. Christopher Bram
“ Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out. Christopher Bram
“ A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? Christopher Bram
“ Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: You were silly like us. Christopher Bram
“ Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love. Christopher Bram
“ Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? Christopher Bram
“ Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college… Christopher Bram
“ A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having such a representative life. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people. Christopher Bram
“ Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction. Christopher Bram
“ A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other p… Christopher Bram
“ Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. Christopher Bram
“ Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much em… Christopher Bram
