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“Mum, she frowned if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why cant one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?”
“Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becomin...”
“I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matte...”
“...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.”
“Ive had librarians say to me, People in my school dont agree with homosexuality, so its difficult to have your book on the shelves. Heres the thing: Being gay is not an issue, it is an identity. It...”
“Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.”
“As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.”
“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl...”
“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”
“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”
“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”
“Madness. That’s what it was. And I could no longer contain it.”
“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.”
“She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.”
“I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic”
“Avery doesn’t know what these people are talking about, and since he’s driving, he can’t go online to check. The sensation he has is a strange, difficult one. He knows these people aren’t talking a...”
“Support Gay Liberation the whole way. But forget the practice. Nothing in it but the pain. They can say in public that I'm queer, but that doesn't mean I have to be. Tell the truth––then outwit it ...”
“It’s never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.”
“I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget—I...”
“I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.”
