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

If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. – James Baldwin, “Disturber of the Peace,” interview with Eve Auchincloss and Nanc

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