Christopher Bram

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

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

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

It__ often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they__e going.

We__e happier when the assholes are villains.

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

A work of art doesn__ need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people__ lives.

Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn__ worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books _ it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in __n Memory of WB Yeats_: __ou were silly like us.

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

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.

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

An obsessed reader figured that __rmistead Maupin_ was an anagram for __s a man I dreamt up_.

Didn__ he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White__ strengths are sex, art and _ sometimes _ love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other__ domain.