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

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

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.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

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

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.