Queer Quotes
“I burst out laughing. I guess because the people who told me
were so serious. Also, I was relieved, because once you’ve got it you
can’t catch it. I don’t think I’m the kind of person who could get
away with not being positive. I can’t live like that — if I’d had to be
vigilant up to this day, it would’ve killed me.”
— Former gay porn star Aiden Shaw, on testing HIV-positive, to Poz.
“I would never wish for my son to be anything but what he is.
He is bright, kind, sensitive, caring, and a very conscientious and
good person. He is a very gifted actor and filmmaker. What more
could a parent ask for in their child? I have been truly blessed. Most
parents feel that their child is particularly special, and I am no dif-
ferent. I have a wonderful son. My only wish for my son, Jason, is
that he continues to experience a rich life of love, happiness, joy,
and fulfillment, both creatively and personally.”
- Barbra Streisand to the Advocate.
Beefcake columnist
“I read your bit about gay cock being bigger than straight cock.
I may have a smaller cock than some faggot, but I’d rather have a
penis the size of a dandelion than stick my cock in some guy’s nasty,
stanky ass.”
— A reader’s letter to sex columnist Dan Savage, in NOW.
“Instead of acting as if they will never exchange bodily fluids with
each other — which was never true anyway — gay men are doing
what they have done since the epidemic began: Deciding which
bodily fluids to exchange with unique partners, and in what per-
mutations of the active and passive roles of anal and oral sex. …
Many HIV-positive men are deciding to have unsafe anal and oral
sex with other men who they know also to be positive. HIV-nega-
tive men are allowing partners who they know to be HIV-negative
to ejaculate inside of them. If they know someone to be HIV-posi-
tive of are not sute, they mostly will either have safe sex or will be
the active partner in unsafe anal or oral sex — that is, not allow
someone to boink them without a condom.”
— From an editorial in Boston’s Bay Windows, written by editor Jeff
Epperly.
“The LGBT press is similar to the mainline press: both love con-
troversy. Controversy sells. My perception is that too many in the
LGBT press have printed lies and myths and unsubstantiated alle-
gations … “just because somebody says them, “just because” if they
come from someone perceived as an oppressed victim they must be
assumed to be telling the truth. I’m tired of myths and untruths that
continue to appear ‘just because… just because… just because.’ …”
- Millennium March on Washington executive producer Robin
Tyler in an open letter attacking critics of the April 30, 2000 event.
