Gayngst/Quotes

Captain Maggie Sawyer: I've been where you are, Renée.

Detective Renee Montoya: You've been where I am? Are you sure? Because somehow I don't think you have. I just have a hard time picturing that. I have a hard time picturing you as a latina for instance. I have a hard time picturing your parents as immigrants from the D.R. who go to mass every Sunday. And I don't really see you having to explain every time you see them why they don't have any grand-children yet... or why it is that you're going to hell when you die."

—Gotham Central

"You show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse."

—Michael, The Boys in the Band

When we were alone, that was a different story. She was intoxicating. I could just lie with her forever, holding each other, sharing the most intimate of moments. It felt right. Pure. And I felt loved. But when it became public, I was back in high school . . . "Wonder what her favorite flavor of carpet is" rose loud and clear when the head monkeys began to chatter. And I would feel the shame of it all over again.

—Sarah Beauhall, Black Blade Blues

I'm a Jew, I'm small, I'm homosexual, and I live in Sheffield. I'm fucked.

—Posner, The History Boys

After all of that, after getting caught shoplifting, and confiscated weed, and illegal tattoos, I've never seen her dad look as angry as he did this afternoon. Isn't that fucked up? We can destroy property, cost him thousands of dollars, get drunk on his alcohol, spend his money, and put ourselves in danger. But the fact that we love each other makes him the angriest?

—Gay Straight Alliance