The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remark...ably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City.... It is not supposed to have existed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if peop...le could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay even ...in a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are ...things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anythi...ng. Sexual identity is broader than a label.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.... In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particula...r dreams to be fulfilled--or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,... Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here also was made the novelty 'Chestnut Bell' which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily ...wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a 'chestnut.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace,... Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living; And a child that is born on a Christmas day, Is fair and wise, good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »