As seen online:
“But it does frustrate me a little when the predominant rhetoric of queer liberation is to make our lives as similar to the lives of cishet people as possible ... one thing that John and I have in common is the belief that laughing at the conventions that cishet people use to beat us with is a good way of dealing with that trauma. “I always thought the privilege of being gay is that we don’t have to get married or go in the Army,” he once said. Quite.”
— from Queeroes: John Waters – The Queerness as of 19 August 2025