I have the solution to the “problem” of gays in the military: Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture, or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly, we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. – Robert Patrick, Los Angeles, California, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 199

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? – Author unknown