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 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)

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need…. And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. – Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. – Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983