Quotes on the Queer Experience
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait
(1988)
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Zanele Muholi
Flesh II
(2005)
Tate
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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Andy Warhol
Self-Portrait
(1986)
Tate
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