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I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan...

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We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's...

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Kate BornsteinGender Outlaws: The Next Generation

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their e...

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Kate BornsteinGender Outlaws: The Next Generation

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're fri...

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To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all ...

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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, ‘she’ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever ...

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Samuel R. DelanyStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a m...

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A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvan...

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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to recko...

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Alison BechdelAre You My Mother?

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part o...

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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that ju...

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Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider o...

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

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There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed ...

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