“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.” LoveReligionHatePoliticsMarriageGayActivismQueerRadicalismGlbtSame Sex Marriage Author:Edmund White
“Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.” MenSelfHateGayForgottenBrilliantNovelistsBiographiesRivalsDrankGorePoignant Author:Edmund White
“Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.” SelfHateAdventurePersonalityReaderExperimentsHipsBoredRebelliousIntriguedGrippingMarieMasochistic Author:Edmund White
“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.” Has BeensWarBigsHateSexExistenceDiseaseAidsThemePhenomenonVietnamPanicCompellingVietnam WarLove HateEpidemicsRottingAids Epidemic Author:Edmund White
