{"quotes":[{"text":"I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings.","author":"D. Travers Scott","tags":["gay","laughter","longing","queer"],"id":6218,"author_id":"D.+Travers+Scott"},{"text":"I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock.'— Michelle Tea, 'Paris: A.","author":"Clint Catalyst","tags":["aging","anthology","clint-catalyst","editors","experimental","first-person-narrative","lgbt-literature","michelle-tea","queer"],"id":6271,"author_id":"Clint+Catalyst"},{"text":"I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity.","author":"Kate Bornstein","tags":["androgyny","gender","queer"],"id":25231,"author_id":"Kate+Bornstein"},{"text":"She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["longing","love","queer","queer-lit","queer-subculture"],"id":49401,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together' (22)(rbt: where does this come from? This being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? Who teaches it? How? When?).","author":"Duvert Summers","tags":["a-boy","being","boy","performativity","queer"],"id":53721,"author_id":"Duvert+Summers"},{"text":"The damaging part of learning to live your life in two parts , whether in reality or fantasy, cannot be underestimated. It is an infectious skill that you learned, one that would eventually spread beyond the bedroom of your life. Life wasn't ever what it seemed on the surface. Nothing could be trusted for what it appeared to be. After all, you weren't what you appeared to be. In learning to hide part of yourself, you lost the ability to trust anything or anyone fully. Without knowing it, you traded humane innocence for dry cynicism.","author":"Alan Downs","tags":["coping","gay","life","psychology","queer","support"],"id":62320,"author_id":"Alan+Downs"},{"text":"I opened my mouth to do some calm explaining. 'I'm gay.' is what came out.","author":"Jane B. Mason","tags":["coming-out","gay","lesbian","queer"],"id":67429,"author_id":"Jane+B.+Mason"},{"text":"Her friend - and her partner on the stage. You will not believe me, but making love to Kitty - a thing done in passion, but always, too, in shadow and silence, and with an ear half-cocked for the sound of footsteps on the stairs - making love to Kitty and posing at her side in a shaft of limelight, before a thousand pairs of eyes, to a script I knew by heart, in an attitude I had laboured for hours to perfect - these things were not so very different. A double act is always twice the act that the audience thinks it; beyond our songs, our steps, our bits of business with coins and canes and flowers, there was a private language, in which we held an endless, delicate exchange of which the crowd knew nothing. This was a language not of the tongue but of the body, its vocabulary the pressure of a finger or a palm, the nudging of a hip, the holding or breaking of a gaze, that said, You are too slow - you got too fast - not there but here - that's good - that's better! It was as if we walked before the crimson curtain, lay down upon the boards and kissed and fondled - and were clapped, and cheered, and paid for it!","author":"Sarah Waters","tags":["acting","gay","lesbian","queer"],"id":82977,"author_id":"Sarah+Waters"},{"text":"The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.","author":"Eileen Myles","tags":["lesbian","lgbt","poetry","queer"],"id":83618,"author_id":"Eileen+Myles"},{"text":"As a lesbian I have no face, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.","author":"Gloria Anzaldua","tags":["queer","racism"],"id":88335,"author_id":"Gloria+Anzaldua"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}