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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Pablo!
- Bodies and Souls
- Numbers
- Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
- Sexual Outlaw : A Documentary
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- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,187x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,305x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,190x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x
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Quotes
- “I celebrate that figure as an “outlaw.” That’s someone who lives in defiance of oppressive laws, and, in doing so, thrives against those strictures.”
- “I was bewildered. I did nothing at all to promote the book, even to the extent of denying that I wrote it. I felt that if I left the streets as soon as I had some success, I'd be betraying the world that I wrote about. And the truth is that I couldn't give it up. I'd been hustling for so long that it was a habit.”
- “You have to understand what the world was like back then. Being queer was very dangerous, and there was a lot of stigma about it. Even when I was hustling, it took me a long time to realise myself as a gay man. It's hard to accept that some of us, at one time or another, had heterosexual feelings. I certainly did. I emerged very slowly into homosexuality, despite the way I was living.”
- “It’s been more difficult for me to come out as a Mexican-American than come out as gay.”
- “I cannot tell you what it does to me to hear pre-Stonewall. And even in our literature, even in the art, pre-Stonewall, post-Stonewall. I wrote three books pre-Stonewall and a dozen more post-Stonewall. There’s no demarcation. Gay history is centuries and centuries from the Romans to the Greeks to Oscar Wilde to all kinds of outrages. And those seem to be put back and pre-Stonewall is passive. Post-Stonewall is brave and dignified. I actually have heard things like that…”
- “We confuse gay liberation with straight imitation. Straightness is our goal. This pushes us away from the uniqueness that is the gay experience.”
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- date of birth
- 1931-03-10
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