There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. – Elton John (b.1947)

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

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems,

If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. – James Baldwin, “Disturber of the Peace,” interview with Eve Auchincloss and Nanc