Art is long and life is short.
Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about...
Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.
It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.
Quiere vivir algo que se parezca a una experiencia extraordinaria, una batalla, una historia de amor, una aventura límite, un crimen incluso. Cielo o infierno, qué importa, pero un gran drama que lo s...
Shake
Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so...
We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in...
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.
Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).
A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.
A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.
Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for . There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, My tits are o...
Not until she stood at her sink, splashing cold water on her face, did she remember her little hippo. What the hell was that about? When did her unconscious get so fucking whimsical? And what fine tru...
The closest he comes to explaining why he found it gay is to say that like Virginia Woolf, it showed a woman defeating a man. Presumably a straight man could never imagine such a thing.
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