Nonfiction
“I noticed the extra space awaiting the S at the end of PARTNER. I noticed the penguins, who mate for life and who are occasionally used as a symbol of the gay community…”
“I wasn’t sitting with the most decorated Olympian ever; he hadn’t broken any world records yet. I was sitting with a Maryland teammate, a fellow competitor, and, simply, a good kid.”
“If it’s safe to assume that Netflix killed the video store and Napster sounded the death knell for record shops, then it’s not a stretch to say that X-Tube killed gay booksellers by decentralizing lust.”
“Stories have a way of percolating in people. They land, they ripple outward, they settle. Over time they become a part of us through their telling and retelling, a new limb through which we feel the world.”
“Along with the 43-year-old Oscar Wilde, the prisoners of Reading Gaol ranged from ten-year-olds to seventy-year-olds.”