Quotes About Identity

The assertion that there are an infinite number of homosexualities is a political statement rather than an observable fact.

Homophobia is a construct while homosexuality is innate.

To be a cocksucker is to be oriented towards a specific gender.

Assertions that the modern homosexual and modern gay subculture are significantly different from the past are based primarily upon ignorance of that past.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner

Call me Roy. Everyone else does." He liked her looks—there was no missing that glint in his eyes, and it disgusted her.

Je est un autre.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one's gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.

Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet 'L' on my forehead. Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don't know what I am—polymorphous and perverse. Shit. I don't even know if I'm white. I'm me. That's all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?

All this overt heterosexuality amused me. If only they knew.

My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.

You gay?" "Oh, I wouldn't say I was gay. I'd just say I was enchanted." "Me too.

Well, we're just All-American queers.

I wished I could get up in the morning and look at the day the way I used to when I was a child. I wished I could walk down the streets and not hear those constant, abrasive sounds from the mouths of the opposite sex. Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.

I'm queer. But why would people get so upset about something that feels so good? Me being a queer can't hurt anyone, why should it be such a terrible thing? Makes no sense.

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it's always an insult.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Polluted, packed, putrid, it's the only place where I have any room, any hope. I got to go back and stick it out. At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation.

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When

When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always

My darling, she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life? I don't mind at all I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.