Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
Edmund White
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We... →
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject... →
If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until... →
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those... →
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight... →
Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.
Sue Wicks
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are... →
Juan Williams