Gay Writers Quotes

“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Heterosexual choice is allowed to be the background of a writer’s life; its wallpaper. So is maleness. And whiteness. Step out of that and you will be called a feminist writer, a lesbian writer, a gay writer, a woman writer. A black writer. You will never be called a heterosexual writer or a male writer or a white writer. Those signifiers are absorbed into the single word ‘writer’.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Love

“Good prose is solitary work.”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.”
― Michael Graves, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs. There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, “My tits are on fire”).”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America