47 Quotes by Christopher Bram

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?