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No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other. ”
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. ”
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 are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from. ”
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear. ”
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them. ”
It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress. ”
I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. ”