My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. – Amanda Bearse (b.1958)

Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. – Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968

My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994

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