Vestal McIntyre quotes

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#Gay #Interesting #Unity

There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#New York #Wall #Fun

London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#Ideas #Space #People

I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#Fashion #Loneliness #Gay

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#Writing #Perspective #Female

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.
-- Vestal McIntyre

#Children #Growing Up #Adults

I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.