These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Edmund White
Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and... →
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life... →
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only... →
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true... →
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or... →