“What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.” PainDesireCultureGaySubversionGay Culture Author:Andrew Sullivan
“I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.” MenShouldStoriesShowsDreamEyeKidsWantedCultureTvsGoes OnGayAdultsPopsHostDreams Come TruePop CultureHousewifeTrue StoryTalk ShowsWinding Up Author:Andy Cohen
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” MenTwoHandsMotivationalCultureSeeingIdentityIntegrityGayComfortableRespectGunCaringHypocrisyLgbtGay MenBeing GayHolding HandsGay PrideLgbt CommunityLgbt PrideGay LifeGay Culture Author:Ernest Gaines
“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsFirstsTwoBookDifferentReasonPoliticalCultureBlackPerfectBoysRightsHappenedGayFirst TimeEmpowermentTwentiesWestAcceptedErasOutsidersCoincidenceAmerican CultureFashionablePolitical CorrectnessBeing DifferentPostersGay RightsCorrectnessX Men Author:Mark Millar
“I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.” ThinkingCultureTermStreetsCoupleGayLifestyleMagazinesRestaurantsCrapSuperficialVirginiaCastroEarringsWoolfGay CultureGay Lifestyle Author:Rita Mae Brown
“I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.” WayBelieveHumansCultureHuman BeingsGayFemaleMalesSexualityBoundariesTerrifiedCrossingsPassportsBisexual Book:The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions Source: The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions
“Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.” CultureGaySexualityGay Culture Book:Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds Source: Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
“I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.” WritingCountryBigsCultureCitiesNew YorkPrideGayComplimentGritGay PrideBeing Played Author:Jennifer Nettles
“On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.” MenBodyCultureGayTrappedGay MenWomen's Bodies Author:Boy George
“With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.” ShouldEnoughCultureGayLuckyBraveryFeministRight TimeProdigious Author:Ayelet Waldman
“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” HelpingCultureGirlSeriousSweetGayDespairCrossesOptimismCriticsPopsConsumersBordersValleysAcademicGood And BadPop Culture Author:Melissa Harris-Perry