People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
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.
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
Men are actually the weaker sex.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
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.
