Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations: A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present - Softcover

Patricia Juliana Smith

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9780756764685: Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations: A Collection of 3,000 Thoughts, Insights, Views, and Perceptions from Antiquity to the Present

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ISBN 10: 0756764688 ISBN 13: 9780756764685

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 1999

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This unique treasury of memorable quotations from across the centuries & around the world is an outstanding record of gay & lesbian sensibility. Prof. Patricia Juliana Smith has assembled a collage of voices -- queer voices, in a variety of senses -- across many centuries. She deems queer an all-encompassing term that covers gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgendered individuals, & anyone else who falls outside the socially comfortable -- & acceptable -- boundaries of the straight world. Smith has culled historical & literary sources, with the purpose of demonstrating a continuum of queer thought & culture over time, with contemporary sources to add a touch of piquancy.

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treasury of memorable quotations from across the centuries and around the world is an outstanding record of gay and lesbian sensibility.

Joe Orton on Truth:
"There are two sexes. The unpalatable truth must be faced."

Eleanor Roosevelt on Curiosity:
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

Rita Mae Brown on Art:
"If Michelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller."

H.D. on Achievement:
"We have not crawled so very far/up our individual grass-blade/toward our individual star."

Jean Cocteau on Arguments and Quarrels:
"But brawling leads to laryngitis."

Boy George on Advice:
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

Florence King on Solitud

About the Author:

Patricia Juliana Smith is visiting assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Lesbian Panic: Homo, eroticism in Modern British Womens' Fiction, editor of The Queer Sixties, and the co-editor of En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera.

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