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“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.”

Looks Heart Grows Pleasure Laughing Gay

Book:Lillian: And Other Poems

Source: Lillian: And Other Poems

“For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.”

People May Universe Grows Gay Corners Gay Love

Author:Jennifer Beals

“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.”

Thinking Children Long Feelings Grows Growing Up Conditions Grew Gay Grew Up Tragedy Meaningful Leaving Me Having Children Long Relationship

Author:Andrew Solomon

“There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.”

“I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.”

Thinking Way Persons Might Choices Grows Struggle Growing Up Impossible Generations Gay Shame My Generation Being Wrong

Author:Ira Sachs

“You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.”

Matter Remember Grows Sides Flower Gay No Matter What God Love Lgbt Highways

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Humans Wells Art Soul Matter Stories Heaven Grows Parent Can Do Hurt Creativity Creative Gay Rewards Sake Radio Enormous Your Soul Nerves Creative Process Showers Bearable

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”

People Way Mother Grows Forget Growing Up Gay Innocent Heartless

Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

“This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.”

Giving Said Soul Enough Body Lying Grows Fire Heard Sea Tears Mines Flower Gay Draws Blue Dear Blow Spots My Soul Grass Shrinks Lilies Had Enough Vines Myrtle

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we can. As a gay kid he'll be a natural leader. Put him in a macho bullshit environment and he's going to have a hard time. I don't want that to happen. (Let's also not forget Wei's immortal words to him nine minutes after he was born, when she first stared into those big brown eyes: "Oh, honey. Promose me you'll grow up to like boys. Because I don't want any other woman in your life except me.")”

Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

“I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.”