“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.” StatesSeemsInterestingObjectsOughtGayPolicePropertyActivismPrivacyApprovalBoresCraveViolationRiotSealsPrivate PropertyPensionColossal Author:Ilana Mercer
“It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult.” MenHas BeensYoungInterestingGayPagesEnginesTwinsYoung WomenCultGay Men Author:Mary Harron
“The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.” PeopleYearsInterestingFlowerIndustryGayDressesInteresting ThingsGay PeopleCatering Author:David Sedaris
“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.” Has BeensFactsInterestingGayQuietSexualityUnnecessaryPersonal LifeRumorMost Interesting Author:T. R. Knight
“I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.” ThinkingWantedGirlInterestingGayShyClosets Author:Rupert Graves
“The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.” PeopleKnowsKindMayShowsInterestingGaySittingGay PeopleSitting Around Author:Lou Reed
“Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.” ShowsCan DoInterestingCommonGayUnityTensionMost InterestingInteresting ThingsBreadth Author:Vestal McIntyre
“It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.” PeopleMeanImportantFeelingsVoiceInterestingIssuesMovementColorEasierGayExcitingImportant ThingsFolksFeministExcellentRisingReally InterestingTransIdentifyingRising Up Author:Lizz Winstead
“'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.” PeopleWayFeelsLongStillsTwoReasonStoriesWould BeTogetherGuyInterestingGayMountainHappeningsShameLove StoryClosetsLong WayBeing GaySad LoveTwo GuysBrokeback Mountain Author:Wesley Morris
“We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.” ThinkingWholeMightKidsFunInterestingGenerationsSpecialIdentityGayGenderOutlawThis GenerationBeing GayGender Identity Author:Dale Peck
“In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.” PeopleIfsWantBookRealDesirePleasureInterestingPayWillingGaySaintReal LifeDullWickedSinnerGood LifeGood PeopleShort LifeWant To Be HappyOne For Me Author:Louisa May Alcott
“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’” KnowsMadeSaidPlayMotherDesireHouseInterestingBoysMomGayDirectBaseballGrassSunlightFabricBugsSample Author:Nate Berkus
“I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.” InterestingGayMost InterestingInteresting ThingsBeing Gay Author:Jason Wu
“I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.” CharacterWould BeInterestInterestingGayScreens Author:Eddie Marsan
“What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.” InterestingGayBoundariesErasMasculinityBreaking DownFemininityBisexualityGlamAndrogyny Author:Todd Haynes
“Not a lot of gay guys end up coming to alt-comedy-ish shows. They like all these '80s shimmer shows, or they like going to drag shows. It is always weird and interesting when I meet somebody at a gay bar who is familiar with my stuff.” EndsShowsGuyStuffInterestingComedyGayBarsFamiliarDrag80sShimmerGay Guy Author:Guy Branum
“Michael, from 'Six Dance Lessons...' He was somebody who had a lot of self-loathing; being a gay man who lost his family and felt ostracized. It was an interesting character to play. He was so bitter and jaded about life. Even though I'm not like that personally, everybody has a side of themselves that tends to look at the negative side of things. He was an interesting character to play.” MenLooksSelfPlayCharacterLostFeltSidesInterestingLessonsGaySixNegativeBitterLoathingGay MenSelf LoathingJadedInteresting Characters Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“In the "Absolutely Fabulous" show, it's a fairly dysfunctional family, but they're not women who are constantly in search of a man. They don't live conventionally, they don't live in a conventional heterosexual relationship. Edina wishes all her children were gay, because as far as she's concerned it's the most glamorous most interesting thing to be. I think it's about bucking convention, really, and living life without apologizing.” ThinkingMenChildrenWishInterestingGayConcernedLive LifeApologizingFabulousMost InterestingGlamorousDysfunctional Family Author:Jennifer Saunders
“It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red states and have families with military history, to be called gay is the worst thing imaginable, and that's used against them. It's really interesting that these are the people drawn into the tickling world. If the people drawn into competitive endurance tickling, even if they were straight, came from liberal, accepting backgrounds, the backlash of calling them gay wouldn't be a problem. But it's a problem because of where these people are from. That's really fascinating to me.” PeopleWorldProblemInterestingAcceptingBoysWorstMilitaryGayInsultEnduranceUnfortunateReally Interesting Author:David Farrier
“I did one interview with the Atlantic. It was very interesting; I could write an entire book on that one experience. I've never had any type of public persona outside of the face recognition I have with this job, so I was really ill prepared to have this conversation. I think the real story was that it became a source for a flurry of other derivative stories. I remember the Post headline said "Marcarelli's Bizarre Life," which to me is code for gay, primarily.” ThinkingWritingBookRealRememberInterestingGayIllRecognitionCodeBizarreVery InterestingPersona Author:Paul Marcarelli
“I need to have one foot inside and one foot outside a culture to be able to write about it. For example, I couldn't write about the gay culture if I were wholly inside or outside of it. Finding that distance is always interesting. I jokingly say that when I'm in America, I write about Beirut, and when I'm in Beirut, I write about America. A lot of my friends in Beirut think I'm more American than Lebanese. Here, my friends think of me more as Lebanese.” ThinkingWritingCultureInterestingGayDistanceThink Of Me Author:Rabih Alameddine
“I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.” BigsInterestingSonGaySmartDumbGay SonMeatheads Author:Moby
“What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.” MenInterestingTalkingGayEightyGay MenBeing Gay Author:Dan Stevens
“Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.” PeopleMotherNightInterestingCompanyTypeGayLateCigaretteHobbiesFavorite Hobby Book:Beautiful Days Source: Beautiful Days
“Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.” StillsBookShowsPoliticalGamesInterestingIssuesWrittenCenturyGayToleranceDisputesGay MarriageHomophobiaEnderPolitical Issues Author:Orson Scott Card