A biography for Christopher Bramhasn’t been written yet.
“Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.”
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.”
“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.”
“Everybody is Other in Maupin.”
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.”
“Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.”
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.”
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”