Queer Quotes Quotes

“My queerness isn’t just a matter of who I sleep with, bigger than sexuality, a subversive reclamation of life outside of the lines”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Joy was defiance in a world that kept breaking us.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: Where The Scar Remains

“Forgiveness wasn’t for them. It was a prison break.”
― Brandon Cloud

“I loved him in letters I couldn’t send.”
― Brandon Cloud, Don't Ask, Don't Die.

“I folded flags and my identity.”
― Brandon Cloud, Don't Ask, Don't Die.

“They let me die for my country. Just not live for who I was.”
― Brandon Cloud

“In uniform, I was invisible and valuable. Out of it, I was just a faggot with a file.”
― Brandon Cloud, Don't Ask, Don't Die.

“My queerness wasn’t the problem. Their fear was.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“Every apology I never received became part of my spine.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“You don’t forget the ones who die on your watch. You carry them in your scrubs.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sunset on Cloud Nine

“Love, like spice, was best added slowly—too much too fast ruined the dish.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sute & Solitude

“Their version of patriotism never included people like me.”
― Brandon Cloud, Don't Ask, Don't Die.

“Closets don’t just hide people. They train them.”
― Brandon Cloud, The Closet Strategist

“I used to count calories. Now I count triggers.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: Where The Scar Remains

“Some call it burnout. I called it drowning with a smile.”
― Brandon Cloud, Sunset on Cloud Nine

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― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Faith didn’t fail me. People using it did.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“I stopped praying for healing and started building it.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“They exorcised my sparkle. I glittered anyway.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Conversion therapy didn’t cure me. It confirmed me.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“I passed as straight until I passed out.”
― Brandon Cloud, Small Town Gayby: A Fictional Memoir of Conversion, Cancer, and Coming Out Loud

“In her kitchen, I found my cravings weren’t culinary.”
― Brandon Cloud, Flour & Fury: A Sweet Rivalry

“I found more grace in drag queens than deacons.”
― Brandon Cloud, A Queer Kind of Hallelujah

“Tears weren’t weakness—they were proof I tried.”
― Brandon Cloud, Beneath the Veil of Tears

“Coming out felt like a hostile takeover.”
― Brandon Cloud, The Closet Strategist

“I had a joke where I said, ‘I watch Star Search sometimes, and my question is: What is Ed McMahon’s talent?”
― Arsenio Hall, Arsenio: A Memoir

“I know what Spike Lee’s game is. He’s the new Malcolm X and everyone else is a money-grubbing hustler. It’s BS, that’s what it is. Spike would love to have my money. He’d love to have Eddie Murphy's money.”
― Arsenio Hall, Arsenio: A Memoir

“As typical with his celebrity feuds, Arsenio fired the first shot, when, in 1989, Rosanne Barr published her autobiography, Roseanne: My Life As a Woman. ‘A lot of people will see her face on this book and be mad when they find out there ain’t no recipes inside,’ Arsenio had joked on the show. ‘It’s not a cookbook.
A Pocketful of Miracle Whip should be the title of her next book.
Her book says that her father was a slob. That’s what interests me. When you look at Roseanne, you would never know, huh?”
― Arsenio Hall, Arsenio: A Memoir

“I did his show once,” said actress Anne-Marie Johnson, 31 (Hollywood Shuffle, In Living Color) “and I’ll never do it again because it’s a very nasty atmosphere.” Johnson plays the role of Althea Tibbs on NBC’s In the Heat of the Night. “It was terrible. You know how he abuses people — women, specifically. And women who don’t act like bimbos who want to sit on his lap, and, you know, take their bra off. It was very insulting.”

The unpleasantness began innocently enough, with show producer, Marla Kell Brown, suggesting that she remain with Hall even after her segment was finished. “She said, ‘Just sit on the couch with him and sit with the other guests, and just be yourself.’” Johnson remembered. “I said, ‘Great! It’ll be wonderful and warm.’” But no sooner did she walk out on stage than things went downhill fast. “So I go out there, and he’s shaking my hand, and the first thing he says to me is, ‘God, you are so skinny,’” recalled the slender, 5-foot, 10-inch Los Angeles-born actress. “That’s the first thing… The way he said it was just so… like it was the only thing he could possibly say.”
After that, said Johnson, the segment just got worse. She couldn’t help but feel offended when Hall repeatedly pestered her about recent relationships, antagonizing for not keeping with her Black boyfriend, and now dating a white man….

ANNE-MARIE: “He has a problem with (Black) women dating white guys,” said Johnson. “So I’m tap-dancing, trying to get out of that, and he looks away, off-stage, where no one was standing, pantomimes an affirmative nod – towards some imaginary stage manager – and looks back at me, insisting, ‘Well, your time’s up. Thank you very much. And I don’t like the way the light’s looking on you, so why don’t you just stand backstage, and watch from there.’“

Johnson then got up, “zombie-like,” and started walking backstage. The segment producers tried to corral her back towards the couch, apologizing for their boss’ behavior, but she had had it. “I said, ‘Never again’ …I wasn’t playing his game. They called me for like a year afterwards, ‘Please come, please come.’ And I said, ‘You will never, ever see me on that show again.’ And I’m sticking to it.”
― Arsenio Hall, Arsenio: A Memoir