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.

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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

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

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.