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To Quote a Queer: A Compendium of Wit, Wisdom, and Devastating Remarks
We’re here! We’re queer! And we’re hilarious!
Not to mention clever, eloquent, bitchy, poetic, luminous, and dead-on brilliant! To Quote a Queer features more than 2,000 quotations from the LGBT community and icons of queer culture on a wide range of subjects, including
• “Bike-riding and tree-climbing may be typically boyish, but they were merely
means to my sissified ends; I wanted, like an eight-year-old Garbo, to be alone.”
- Dan Savage
• Coming “What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear.
They think they’ll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold.” - Melissa Etheridge
• “When you become a public figure, you become at the same time a product, and
people actually look at your ‘expiration date,’ you know? They look at your age and say,
‘Hmm. How fresh is this one?’” - Rupaul
• “You have to write a lot of bad poetry to get a good line of prose.” - Dorothy Allison
• “If I’m going to make fun of something, I need to find that in myself and then
exaggerate it.” - David Sedaris
Not to mention clever, eloquent, bitchy, poetic, luminous, and dead-on brilliant! To Quote a Queer features more than 2,000 quotations from the LGBT community and icons of queer culture on a wide range of subjects, including
• “Bike-riding and tree-climbing may be typically boyish, but they were merely
means to my sissified ends; I wanted, like an eight-year-old Garbo, to be alone.”
- Dan Savage
• Coming “What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear.
They think they’ll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold.” - Melissa Etheridge
• “When you become a public figure, you become at the same time a product, and
people actually look at your ‘expiration date,’ you know? They look at your age and say,
‘Hmm. How fresh is this one?’” - Rupaul
• “You have to write a lot of bad poetry to get a good line of prose.” - Dorothy Allison
• “If I’m going to make fun of something, I need to find that in myself and then
exaggerate it.” - David Sedaris
480 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2008
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October 9, 2014
Ehh, it was all right. I'm usually fond of quote books. There were some on this book I liked, and a few people I'll probably be looking into based on their quotes, but overall I wasn't that impressed. I was confused by the organisation. There was one page that was repeated in entirety twice, as were some quotes in random spots. I noticed that I could think of plenty of queer women through history that didn't show up in it and quite easily could have, given the men who were included.
December 6, 2019
Don’t normally read nonfiction, or even quotation books, but this was way better than I expected. Sad, funny and inspiring.
December 31, 2008
The quotes are skewed way more toward the guys, as usual.
What's more, most of the quotes from gay women are dour and stridently feminist. So it's like: a witty and fabulous Carson Kressler/Oscar Wilde/Quentin Crisp quote next to some text from an Andrea Dorkwin paper. WTF?
I blame the editor. A man.
When will gay women get the representation they deserve in the annals of gay culture. And I do mean "culture." We did some fabulous, artistic things, too.
What's more, most of the quotes from gay women are dour and stridently feminist. So it's like: a witty and fabulous Carson Kressler/Oscar Wilde/Quentin Crisp quote next to some text from an Andrea Dorkwin paper. WTF?
I blame the editor. A man.
When will gay women get the representation they deserve in the annals of gay culture. And I do mean "culture." We did some fabulous, artistic things, too.
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