#queer quotes

[thinkdifferent70]

It's wonderful to be someone's weakness - Luke -

[makingqueerhistory]

Queer comes to be defined as the not-yet; queer is what is not yet possible, not yet thinkable or legible. In other words, queer is understood in terms of a present of disavowal and a future of possibility.

Ben Davies and Jana Funke

[chronicowboy]

a collection of my favourite queer writing

annie on my mind by nancy garden | 2 & 3 baby, you are my religion by marie carter | these hands if not gods in post colonial love poem by natalie diaz | portrait of a lady on fire (2019) | the queer erotics of handholding in literature by kristen arnett | sappho | no more cis hands on my body please by srishti uppal | anureet watta

[godzilla-reads]

“You can be a stranger to yourself; you almost certainly will be, at some point or another. It is inevitable, as inevitable as the moment of rupture that sends you hurtling toward the self you were always going to be.”

—Carmen Maria Machado, Both Ways- from It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese

[homerjacksons]

- Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

[i-indigo]

All the pain means nothing when I'm with you,

But what happens when you hurt me?

What do I have left, then?

[Note]

[aethyrx]

Found this poem from the 13th century after spending an hour researching translations of Leviticus 18:22:

"Had the son of Amram seen the face of my beloved reddened from the foolishness of liquor, and the beauty of his extremities and the majesty of his beauty, he would not have written in his Torah: 'and with a man do not lie'."

We will persist🥰

[gay-dumpsterfire]

I love when men have large hands that fully encase my own. I love the goofy grins they get when they’re proud and embarrassed at the same time. The shy smiles that fill my stomach with butterflies. I love tall men, how their bodies wrap around me and I feel safe and warm. I love short men who are just my size because I too, am short. I love thin men. They look like they could break so easily, but they’re spitfires instead. I love chunky men, especially when they have a belly. They’re so soft and comfortable and warm. I love men with long hair that effortlessly falls just right and the way it blows in the breeze. I love men with short hair whose beautiful faces aren’t hidden from the world to see. I love confident men who aren’t afraid to say what they think. I love shy men who smile at every compliment. How I wish words could make them see how beautiful they really are. I just. Love. Men.

[pluckywallflower]

"You say helped give me life? Fine. You did. But you don't own me, and I owe you nothing. Try and lock me away. I promise you'll have a hell of a fight on your hands. And maybe you'll win. But I will never be who you want me to be."

I see what you're doing T. J. Klune

From In the Lives of Puppets

[angsty-bisexual-doctor]

"What can I say, I like to relate to on screen characters and I'm a raging homosexual"

- My DM this morning

[thinkdifferent70]

There are those who kiss and those who, in a kiss, gives you the whole soul - Luke C -

[makingqueerhistory]

Myself, I know that I belong with the idea of Lilith, the anti-Eve, and that my universe is that of the spirit.

Leonor Fini

[chronicowboy]

"You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation. But some day that will come, and meanwhile don't shrink from yourself, but face yourself calmly and bravely. Have courage; do the best you can with your burden. But above all be honourable. Cling to your honour for the sake of those others who share the same burden. For their sakes show the world that people like you and they can be quite as selfless and fine as the rest of mankind. Let your life go to prove this—it would be a really great life—work, Stephen."

— the well of loneliness, radclyffe hall

[ennieasys]

our system quote book so far...

[queerandquiet]

The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid. They tell us to “be ourselves,” but if you listen closely, there’s more to that sentence: “. . . until you make them uncomfortable.”

Alok Vaid-Menon, in their book “Beyond the Gender Binary”

[little-tiffany]

i hope i'm queer in every lifetime.