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• Harold
• Nabokov
• Susan Sontag
• Marilyn
• Richard Howard
• Stan
• Keith Mcdermott
• Virgil
• Chris
• Peggy
• Jimmy
• Balanchine
• Mapplethorpe
• Cole
• John Ashbery
• Simon
• Gardner
• Doug
• Burroughs
• Dick Sennett
• James Merrill
• Barth
• Robert
• Sigrid
• Joe
• Frank
• Chekhov
• Faulkner
• Harry
• Isherwood
• Stephen
• Don
• Henry James
• Wilson
• George
• Richard Poirier
• Gunn
• Duchamp
• Milton

Quotes edit see section history

• “Then everything changed with the Stonewall Uprising toward the end of June 1969. And it wasn't all those crew-necked white boys in the Hamptons and the Pines who changed things, but the Black Kids and Puerto Rican Transvestites who came down to the Village on the Subway (the "A-Trainers") who made the difference.”

  Edmund White

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• Love is a source of anxiety until it is a source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit. Love raises great expectations in us that it never satisfies; the hopes based on friendship are milder and in the present, and they exist only because they have already been rewarded. Love is a script about just a few repeated themes we have a hard time following, though we make every effort to conform to its tone. Friendship is a permis de séjour that enables us to go anywhere and do anything exactly as our whims dictate.

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• Henry Green and that his novel Nothing is the only book I’ve read ten times.

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• Reading the written word is participating in a dialogue in which one person is doing all the talking but in which the listening is also creative.

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• There was no “gay pride” back then—there was only gay fear and gay isolation and gay distrust and gay self-hatred.

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• I would still say that people who are oppressed by an entire society can free themselves only by taking on that entire society and redefining the terms that were imposed on them, switching all the minuses to pluses.

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• Just remember that at Stonewall we were defending our right to have fun, to meet each other, and to have sex.

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• We could say strategic things to lovers and seductive things to tricks, but a friend deserved the truth. With a friend we had to get things right.

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• one was only as good as one’s circle, and a superior, stimulating milieu could raise the general level of conversation, of sophistication, even of moral discrimination and esthetic refinement, certainly of ambition and accomplishment.

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• Up till that moment we had all thought that homosexuality was a medical term. Suddenly we saw that we could be a minority group—with rights, a culture, an agenda. June 28, 1969, was a big date in gay history.

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• The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, and Original Youth, a biographical study of my first sixteen years, which was a factually correct version of the period covered by my semiautobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York City Ballet
• Paris
• Venice
• America
• San Francisco
• Rome
• Manhattan
• France
• Europe
• Key West
• Stonington
• West Coast
• Los Angeles
• Gogol
• California
• Italy
• Princeton
• Long Island
• United States
• East Coast
• Ohio
• Chicago
• Gotham
• West Side
• Hollywood
• Midwest
• New England
• Switzerland
• Russia
• Naples
• Baltimore
• Michigan
• Soviet Union
• West Village
• Columbia

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Edmund White (Author)

Awards edit see section history

• Lambda Literary Award (Finalist: Gay Memoir/Biography)
• National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2009: Autobiography)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( W ) › White, Edmund
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
• Books › Gay & Lesbian › Biographies & Memoirs
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs

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