Best quotes by Edmund White on Gay

Checkout quotes by Edmund White on Gay

  • Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
    - Edmund White
  • If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
    - Edmund White
  • A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
    - Edmund White
  • I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
    - Edmund White
  • Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
    - Edmund White