Jarrett Neal
"For a long time, many issues concerning black gay men had been tugging at me, things I had observed and experienced."

Rebecca Makkai
"I keep joking that I’m a reincarnated gay man from the 1920s."

Steve Orlando
"We are looking to give a sort of icon to the queer community. It’s vitally important that he’s a gay man in the book. I can’t discount that."

Christine Sneed
"I spend time with creative people whose sexual orientation is different from my own."

Jennifer Morales
"I’ve been saying that Meet Me Halfway is both a love letter and a mugshot."

Jonathan Harper

Bridget Birdsall
"The motivation to write about Alyx was not only because I have more and more friends who come out as gender queer..."

Hans M. Hirschi

Jackson Galaxy

Rick Karlin
"I like taking that fear and turning it on its ear, making people think about how they feel about people who are different from themselves."

Gregg Shapiro
"When I wrote about them, I was just trying to tell the stories of their lives at that moment. I hope they are happy wherever they are."

Trish Bendix
"Some personal highlights have been meeting people—musicians, actors, writers, producers, directors—who not only know exactly what AfterEllen is but tell me how much they love it."

Patrick Dati
"I have survived."

Eddie Shapiro
"...there's not one single interview where I didn't have multiple surprises."

Nikki Levy
"I wanted to start a show where I could take writers and performers whom I thought were brilliant, help them develop their work, and get them seen and discovered."

Eric Charles May
"For me, I didn’t feel like I was writing against anything, but I wanted to make sure that these characters, like all the other characters, are seen in the full width and breadth of their humanity."

Christopher Daniels
"Then the escorting stuff started happening and the experiences were a little odd, some of them, and they would really stand out."

Amy Dickinson
"I have not changed my stand, so to speak, on LGBT issues in 10 years."

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
"I think that the queer voices that mean something to me are almost always shut out of mainstream gay and straight discourse."

Adam Pasen
"Stylistically I’m very much a Fitzgerald, who was really two writers packed into one..."

Molly Ringwald

Dan Vera

Julie Newmar
"I think will power comes with age. I really learned to like what is good for me."

Justin Hall
"In the past, if there was a comic with a queer character, it became a queer comic because the mainstream wouldn’t necessarily touch it."