{"quotes":[{"text":"There's nothing gay about living life straight.","author":"Paul B. Tripp","tags":["dadt","gay-and-lesbian","memoir","military","reparative-therapy"],"id":728,"author_id":"Paul+B.+Tripp"},{"text":"Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there wasanything worth editing.“Joshua Roberts, you had better get your butt on the move!” Dannyhollered as he walked down the stairs.I was nervously waiting for them to leave as I pretended to watch TV inthe front room.“We're going to be late.”“So the hair crisis is under control I see.”“A stray hair will never win between a bottle of gel and a gay man,” hedeclared with a smile. “Joshua!”“I'm coming. I'm coming.”I heard his sandals click on the stairs and I waited to see if the mentalimage matched the real one. To my non surprise it did.","author":"Kaitlin Scott","tags":["danny","fiction","fiction-writing","for-danny","gay-and-lesbian","gay-romance"],"id":40015,"author_id":"Kaitlin+Scott"},{"text":"Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.","author":"Zach Wahls","tags":["equality","gay-and-lesbian","inspirational"],"id":40982,"author_id":"Zach+Wahls"},{"text":"Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.","author":"David Demchuk","tags":["dark-fantasy","fantasy","gay-and-lesbian","horror","literary"],"id":89383,"author_id":"David+Demchuk"},{"text":"I’m scared to fall asleep. I don’t want to see it...","author":"Rebecca Ybarra","tags":["dramatic-moment","fall-from-grace","fiction","gay-and-lesbian","gracie","lgbt"],"id":89977,"author_id":"Rebecca+Ybarra"},{"text":"Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...And we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from 'Descendants of the Eminent').","author":"Tim Cummings","tags":["addiction","afterlife","astrology","brothers","children-of-celebrities","class-struggle","dolls","epilepsy","gay-and-lesbian","ghosts","goth-lifestyle","hollywood","jocks","love","mothers-and-daughters","plays","poetry","progeria","screenplays","suicide","teenagers","war"],"id":128966,"author_id":"Tim+Cummings"},{"text":"When are you going to get a fella?' Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. 'I have one who wants to take me kissing, but I think I should wait for you to have one.'Rose flushes. 'I don't think I'll ever have a fella.'Why not?' Lily bristles. 'We're plenty pretty.'I don't like the look of them,' Rose says.Lily purses her lips at the dance floor, appraising.After a moment long, Rose says, 'Any of them.'Lily looks at her a long time, as Rose tries not to hyperventilate.Then Lily shrugs and says, 'Well, then it's you who should have learned to lead, isn't it?' and when Rose clasps Lily's hand, she clasps it back.It's the closest they've ever been.","author":"Genevieve Valentine","tags":["coming-of-age","gay-and-lesbian","ladies","lgbtq","sisters","twins"],"id":160672,"author_id":"Genevieve+Valentine"},{"text":"Some stories need to be told time and again. Every generation forgets. Every child learns anew.","author":"David Demchuk","tags":["dark-fantasy","fantasy","gay-and-lesbian","horror","literary"],"id":176271,"author_id":"David+Demchuk"},{"text":"Once,' Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, 'I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?","author":"Madeleine George","tags":["bravery","coming-out","gay-and-lesbian","honesty","love","relationships","self-awareness"],"id":233197,"author_id":"Madeleine+George"},{"text":"It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years.","author":"Tim Cummings","tags":["addiction","afterlife","astrology","brothers","children-of-celebrities","class-struggle","dolls","epilepsy","gay-and-lesbian","ghosts","goth-lifestyle","hollywood","jocks","love","mothers-and-daughters","plays","poetry","progeria","screenplays","suicide","teenagers","war"],"id":255676,"author_id":"Tim+Cummings"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}