“you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.” AbleLife IsSpeakChanceGayLaughterEndureLaughed Author:Catherine the Great
“Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!” KnowsPersonsStillsLife IsTomorrowGayWake UpComplicatedGenderCongratulationsLife Is Complicated Author:Moby
“OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.” TryingWholeLife IsParentCrazyMomDadGayMarriedMy FamilyMy DadMy MomWhole LifeParadox Author:Mike Mills
“I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.” HumansMomentsBigsLife IsRealizingDealsGoneFashionGayArmyTerroristHuman LifeBrutalShockedBig DealGay MarriageTsunami Author:Jennifer Beals
“The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?” WantTryingHumansMadeFeelingsDreamLife IsDesireAsksSidesConditionsLonelinessGayFilledCrueltyHuman ConditionConcreteAbnormalRepressedDarker SideGay Life Author:Arthur Tress
“You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's his life, no less so than your life is yours.” WayRealCharacterLife IsIssuesGay Author:Teju Cole
“If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?” IfsMeanLife IsGayValuableWelfareLatinoReally Mean Author:Walter Dean Myers
“Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.” SoulDreamLife IsSleepSecretSadnessGayThrillDisturbedSaddened Author:Khalil Gibran
“* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsWritingTryingFacesLife IsJoyMillionsPiecesDyingPaintingGayPaintSillyUnhappyGentlemanAgreementYour FaceBitternessContagionUnfulfillment Author:Sylvia Plath