Gay Quotes by Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon – middle-class Americans – have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.

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Daniel Mendelsohn

Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it’s true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It’s a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

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