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

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

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.

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

All who love are conspirators.

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.

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