“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.” WayFirstsChildrenFormTurnsGrowsParentWhiteCitiesGrowing UpImagineGenerationsStreetsGayBreatheFlightHighwaysObsoleteSuburbsLawnsSkylines Author:Herbert Muschamp
“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 discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.” NextCourageRiskStreetsVictoryGayShotsDressesMarchSkirtsPhiladelphiaThe Next One Author:Martha Shelley
“It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.” PeopleThinkingMenWould BeCommunityPowerfulStreetsPositionGayNotionIdiotProductiveHelpfulComing OutLiving OnGay MenPreconceived Notions Author:Madonna Ciccone
“The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.” LyingGuySunStreetsSeriousGayBeachCaliforniaPunkUnemploymentPercentagesCollectingBodybuilder Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.” MenWayBookSometimesWould BeNiceStreetsGaySittingTablesAssBreastsAppropriateRemarkableCommentCreepySigningSupermarketsGay Men Author:David Sedaris
“I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.” FactsProblemKidsSchoolParentStreetsCoupleGaySuicideTransgenderGay CouplesPda Author:Steven Petrow
“The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan.” IfsMightSoundStreetsGayMy FavoriteIconsBalzacRue Book:I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Source: I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
“When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.” WantStreetsGayBallsClubsGangMotorcycleWork PlaceMotorcycle Gangs Author:Bernie Mac
“I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.” KnowsShowsWould BeStreetsGayPrisonPrisonerCutestReally Gay Author:Godfrey
“People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingBookDifferentReasonWholeNaturalWalksWonderStreetsJudgingGayInstinctFingersNatural InstinctKilts Author:Kid Cudi
“I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.” DifferentCountryLightHouseWhiteFictionGroupsStreetsPositionGayScience FictionComplainingFiction WritersHumanisticOakland Author:Ishmael Reed
“I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.” IfsWantDoeCareStreetsWindGayDon't CareI Don't CareAvenuesGay Life Author:Jack Pierson
“And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.” UsedStreetsGayClubsPunkBeatenPoland Author:Gary Numan
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” HumansHeartLinesStreetsGayMountainLgbtHomosexualityHomosexualHuman HeartOrientationGay RightsBeing GayGay PrideLgbt CommunityLgbt PrideGay And StraightPro Gay Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.” KnowsWantedMovingQualityStreetsReaderCoupleGayDearNeighborhoodHomophobiaMoving InAbbyGay Couples Author:Abigail Van Buren