“Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott”

“The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison”

“...there are more models than the heterosexual one for a male and female who want to exchange erotic energy.”

“It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass--or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses--can really make a difference ...”

“Gone now was the tease. Gone was the lesson on the how's and why's. Now came the needThe need to finish, the need to come, and the need to be part of the other person.”

“Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.”

“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so muc...”

“The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exerci...”