Men are actually the weaker sex.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

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.

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.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

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.