Quoted: Christopher Bram on queer writers and queer readers

The problem isn't that don't have enough good books or good writers, but that we need more good readers. [...] But let's admit an ugly truth here: real readers -- readers hungry, curious, open-minded readers of fiction in particular and good books in general -- gay and straight -- are a minority, every bit as freakish as the minorities that make up the alphabet soup of the LGBT.  -- Christopher Bram from Mapping the Territory

I was a little hesitant to post this quote, though I agree with the sentiment behind it. It's not really popular or smart to promote a hierarchy of readers, lest you enjoy being called an elitist, but there's a quite a bit of truth here: there aren't enough readers, especially readers of fiction.