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To Quote a Queer: A Compendium of Wit, Wisdom, and Devastating Remarks | 
 enlarge | Creator: John Lessard
Publisher: Quirk Books
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.6 x 1.6
ISBN: 1594742235
Dewey Decimal Number: 080
EAN: 9781594742231
ASIN: 1594742235
Publication Date: June 14, 2008
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We're here. We're queer. And we're hilarious! Not to mention eloquent, bitchy, poetic, luminous, and dead-on brilliant! emTo Quote a Queer/em features more than 2,500 quotations on a host of subjects, including: pBody Image: "To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be." ?Bruce Vilanch pFashion: "If I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely overeducated." ?Oscar Wilde pHomophobia: "A lot of people are not homophobic, but they think they're supposed to be. They think that if they don't express prejudice, people will think there's something the matter with them." ?Barney Frank pTherapy: "I think I have OCD or ADD or some other three-initial ditty. Whatever it is, it's exhauasting." ?Rosie O'Donnell pTruth: "I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true." ?Truman Capote pChildhood: "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 Savage pComing 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 Etheridge pFame: "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?'" ?RuPaul pAnd much more. Hitting shelves just in time for summer's pride festivities, emTo Quote a Queer/em is the perfect gift for gays and the people who love them.
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I Wish I Had Said That May 20, 2008
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Lessard, John, editor. "To Quote a Queer: A Compendium of Wit, Wisdom and Devastating Remarks", Quirk, 2008. br / br /I Wish I Had Said That br / br /Amos Lassen br / br /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. br / 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. br /
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