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)

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who dont love anybody. – Rita Mae Brown

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 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