But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
Men are actually the weaker sex.
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
All who love are conspirators.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
