Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
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.
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.
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
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.