"Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. I suppose I'm gay. But I don't really identify with it much... I've never said I was gay, and I've never said I wasn't... What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else."
— Edward Gorey

January 1, 1970

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Lisa Solod, "Edward Gorey: The Cape's master teller of macabre tales discusses death, decadence, and homosexuality," Boston magazine, September 1980; quoted in Mark Dery, Born to Be Posthumous, Little, Brown, 2018, p. 410.