If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual. – Dr. Harry Benjamin, psychotherapist, 1988

I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share. – Rita Mae Brown

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

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. – Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964