Quotes by Edmund White

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

I dont have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

Ive always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom theyve shared their life for 20 or 30 years.

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, It must be a good thing to fight for.

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Im not such a fan of imagination. If youre alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.