Gay Life Quotes
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“Gay life is this object out there that鈥檚 waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we鈥檝e exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we鈥檝e just barely touched on them.”
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“In regard to gay male life specifically, a number of academic studies have concluded that we鈥檙e more emotionally expressive and sexually innovative than heterosexual men, more empathic, and more altruistic (we do volunteer work far more often than our straight male counterparts), and we鈥檙e more likely to cross racial and gender borders when forming close bonds of friendship. When part of a couple, we鈥攁nd this is even more true of lesbian partnerships鈥攁void stereotypic gender roles and instead emphasize mutuality and shared responsibilities. Gay couples have 鈥渕ore relationship satisfaction鈥� than straight couples, and when we do argue, we鈥檙e better at seeing our partner鈥檚 point of view and at using humor to deflate belligerence.”
― Has the Gay Movement Failed?
― Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.”
― King of the Badgers
― King of the Badgers

“Gay life in Amman, as in Havana, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, Cairo, Mumbai, and Beijing, is a marginal, dangerous, and marvelous underground counterculture: a fear and a promise. The phrase 鈥渙ne thousand and one nights鈥� has never seemed to me both so unsettling鈥攁nd so gay-friendly.”
― Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
― Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
“That was the gay scene. You just lived for sex, that's all.”
― Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders
― Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders

“I understood clearly through those days that I was living a feeling. And when I remember now, I am still living that; it has been folded into me and continues to resonate. On some level, we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”
― Deep House
― Deep House

“I understood clearly through those days that I was living a feeling. And when I remember now, I am still living that; it has been folded into me and continues to resonate. On some level,
we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”
― Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
we knew then that we were creating this feeling to be taken along from then on.”
― Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
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