Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

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.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

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

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.