Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories — fag and straight. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

The diagnosis of homosexuality as a “disorder” is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill…. Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. – Ronald Gold, c.1975

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994