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“She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound...”
“A man’s love for a man is neither more nor less than a man’s love for a woman, it is only different.”
“Y’look like someone told you they’d stopped making lube.”
“You take a dick and you get it wet and then you put it someplace tight—”
“Explanations of straight men's homosexual behavior take the awkwardness, shame, and ambivalence attached to these encounters as evidence of discordance between self and behavior, forgetting that th...”
“In every woman, Claude had told Mickey, there is a need rarely satisfied by men, a need for simply caressing, and she had described how one of her women friends loved to cares the 'neutral parts' o...”
“What’s interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there’s a line that you don’t cross.”
“What was it with gay men and art photos of nude male torsos?”
“Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like...”
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”
“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.”
“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...”
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.”
“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.”
“The pending brahpocalypse/ coup d'état - whatever it was - was much more important than whether a donut-eating Police Officer saw a flying saucer over a gay club or not." - Red Gods Sing.”
“A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.”
“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 ...”
“There are three lies in life,” Sutherland said to his young companion, whose first night this was in the realm of homosexuality and whose introduction to it Sutherland had taken upon himself to sup...”
“Victor, back there in that basement, when the zombies were… were… moving around on those tables…. Twitching? And dead? You didn’t even blink.This is nothing like those zombies.No shit. Because this...”
“Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
