“On weekdays, everyone would read Armistead Maupan's "Tales of the City," published as a novel in 1978. His leading character Michael "Mouse" Toliver, a clone-ish softie himself, laments the experience of meeting men– nice mustache, Levis, a starched khaki army shirt, strong– and trying to resist visiting the bathrooms, lest he encounter the giveaway, the fantasy-killer: face creams and shampoos for days." Mouse was only being wistful, but the underlying efemmophobia was pernicious on the scene. Masculinity can be something that gay men project onto one another, only to snatch it away at the first sign of inauthenticity. That they hadn't rolled out of bed looking ruggedly handsome, but required a beauty routine to get that way.” DamnMasculinityGay CultureGender PerformanceGender Theory Book:Gay Bar: Why We Went Out Source: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.” IfsThinkingWorldReasonCultureFoundLanguageSocialWonderfulGayDisabilityLatinoDeafnessSign LanguageWonderful WorldJewish CultureGay CultureLatino Culture Author:Andrew Solomon
“A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.” ThinkingShouldHas BeensMovingUsedCultureSexKnownGayUsed To BeErasCampsMainstreamMainstream CultureGay Culture Author:Neil Tennant
“Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.” PeopleIfsPersonsSufferingCultureBitsPrideGayCriticalCriticizeDisplayDogmaHomophobiaInsufficientGay Culture Author:Dan Savage
“There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.” WholeCultureRepublicanGayDemocratGay Culture Author:Kirby Dick
“Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.” BelieveMightCultureViolenceGayActivistSurvivingGaugesHomophobicGay Culture Author:Lance Loud
“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsAbleCultureLosesCreativityWorryForeverGenerationsGayMarriedInstitutionsAccessAlternativesRecognizingGay PeopleSubcultureGay Culture Author:Rachel Maddow
“I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.” WantInspirationalWholeCultureGayToolsWhole LifeLgbtMainstreamGay Culture Author:Lady Gaga