Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America Quotes

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Trust the tale, not the teller.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Art is long and life is short.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America