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

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.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

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

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