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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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