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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accepted Adopt Anyone Anyone Else Because Bigots Defining Else Fully Gay Gay Marriage Gays Institution Like Marriage Marry Must Never Oppose Them Until Will

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The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Clearly Could Culmination Despite Gay Gay Marriage Had Intense Labeled Long Marriage Opposition Religious Religious Right Right State Struggle Which Year

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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aids Gays General Had Longer Populace Privileged Seemed Sympathy Won 1970S

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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accept America American American Spirit Been Case Come Convincing Did Equality Fair Fair Play Families Gay Had Leaders Like Made Mainstream Marriage Marriage Equality Play Rights Same Should Spirit Straight Were Why

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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aids American Another Depressed Determined Die Dismissed Dying Everyone French French People Going Hysterical Keep Paris Party People Phobia Pragmatic Said Some Started Then Until Way Well Were You

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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aids Asked Attention Body Die Going Paid Said Sort

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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Black Care Encouraged Father Friends He Her Home Ill Later Liked Married Match Me Mother Never Opened Really She Were Write Writer Years I Write 1950S

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I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accompanied Desert Destination Dry Dying Favored Hot Lyrical Own People Seems Several Travels Very Way

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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Am American Better England Everybody Feel French Good Here Knowing Known Much Names Read Than Very I Am

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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Gay Novel Novelist People Straight Worry Write Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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