Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.