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

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.

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

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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

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