queer  sexuality 


Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk, 1992:
"Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking."

Quentin Crisp, Sunday Times, 20 Jan 1982:
"Practising [homosexual]? Certainly not. I'm perfect."

Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk, 1992:
"It's important to talk about sex, to define ourselves in a world which has never talked about us or even let us talk about ourselves"

Derek Jarman, Modern Nature, 1991:
[After reading an anti-gay article in Watchtower, where the Jehova's Witnesses attacked the sexual revolution.]
"I want to bear witness how happy I am, and will be until the day I die, that I was part of the hated sexual revolution"

Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, 1989:
"The only way we'll have a real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there - all trough history we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all put creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organize ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed"

Christer Priwe, Göra som dig behagar: en biografi, 2004:
[Translated from Swedish.]
"We as homosexuals keep up much of the homophobia and repression ourselves. We conform ourselves to the norms in fear of not being accepted, we hide our love and do not talk about our private lives."

Jean Genet:
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951:
"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains!"

Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk, 1992:
"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea"

Birgitta Stenberg [Zon]:
[about a backlash against the queer culture, translated from Swedish.]
"There is always a threat, the question is only how far we have come before they start to attack. The Christian groups have already started. /.../ But we have to take risks. The alternative is to stay in the closet."

Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk, 1992:
"I hope  boys will carry on falling in love with boys and girls with girls and they'll find no way to change that."


Derek Jarman, Modern Nature, 1991:
"A personal mythology recurs in my writing, much the same way poppy wreaths have crept into my films. For me archeology has become obsessive, for the 'experts' my sexuality is a confusion. All information received should make us inverts sad. But before I finish I intend to celebrate our corner of Paradise, the part of the garden the Lord forgot to mention."

Harvey Fierstein:
"My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change."

Derek Jarman, Modern Nature, 1991:
"In the old days pansies were virgin white, until Cupid fired his arrow and turned them the colours of the rainbow."