To Quote a Queer: A Compendium of Wit, Wisdom, and Devastating Remarks

By John Lessard

We're here We're queer And we're hilarious

Not to mention clever, eloquent, bitchy, poetic, luminous, and dead-on brilliant To Quote a Queer features more than 2,000 quotations from the LGBT community and icons of queer culture on a wide range of subjects, includingChildhood: "Bike-riding and tree-climbing may be typically boyish, but they were merely means to my sissified ends; I wanted, like an eight-year-old Garbo, to be alone." - Dan SavageComing Out: "What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear. They think they'll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold." - Melissa EtheridgeFame: "When you become a public figure, you become at the same time a product, and people actually look at your 'expiration date, ' you know? They look at your age and say, 'Hmm. How fresh is this one?'" - RupaulWriting: "You have to write a lot of bad poetry to get a good line of prose." - Dorothy AllisonHumor: "If I'm going to make fun of something, I need to find that in myself and then exaggerate it." - David Sedaris

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594742235
• ISBN13: 9781594742231
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

I Wish I Had Said That

Lessard, John, editor. "To Quote a Queer: A Compendium of Wit, Wisdom and Devastating Remarks", Quirk, 2008. I Wish I Had Said That Amos Lassen I just finished going through (reading is not the correct word) John Lessard's "To Quote a Queer" and am sitting here at my computer trying to figure a way to review it. An anthology on one and two lines like this is really hard to write about. But let me say that this is the kind of book that every gay person needs to have in their library. It gives you the thing to say for every occasion. After all as both the introduction and Matthew Arnold said that culture is defined by "the best which has thought and said in the world". And we, the GLBT community seem to have a lot to say. We are now in a place where the nations of the world are aware of our existence, so it is only right and timely that our quotes be compiled, organized and saved. The diversity of our community gives us something to say about almost everything. It is pure fun to read "To Quote a Queer" and there is so much to be learned here. Lessard has organized the book alphabetically by topics and should you want to find a quote about anything at all, it is easy to do so. I absolutely love this big, little book and I always try to find a suitable quote to add to the bottom of my emails. It makes letter writing so much fun."To Quote a Queer" has a prominent place on my desk so it is always available.