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

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

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.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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

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.