Edgar Gomez > Quotes

“It frustrates me to think that the people I love may never be rewarded with everything they deserve, but I’m comforted by the fact that they don’t let the current bleakness of the world keep them from fighting to make it a better place. Every day they claim their joy, dreaming out loud with me on the phone, dancing in line outside Friend’s, marching through the streets. I don’t know what happens after, when this is all over. But wherever they’re going, that’s where I’m trying to go too.”
― Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays

“Lying gave me my body back. My power. Besides”
― Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays

“Some people played “What would you do if there was a zombie outbreak?” I played “Where would you go if it became illegal to be gay?”
― Edgar Gomez, High-Risk Homosexual

“I read once that in the thousands of years it takes their light to reach Earth, many of the stars we see scattered across the sky have already burned out. Turning our eyes to them, then, is like traveling back in time to when something gorgeous still existed.”
― Edgar Gomez, High-Risk Homosexual