“They swept up Sixth Avenue, from Sheridan Square to Central Park, astonishing everything in their way... My God, are those really homosexuals? Marching? Up Sixth Avenue?”
"She's regarded by those who don't know better as the authority on black gay life, and was recently appointed the James Baldwin Professor of African American Effeminacy at Harvard."
“The word passion originally meant suffering, agony, as of a martyr. The passion of Christ and all that. No wonder being in love made me feel out of control.”