Zitat des Tages von George Weinberg:
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
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.
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.
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
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 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.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
All who love are conspirators.
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
Men are actually the weaker sex.
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.