Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They dont mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people hed met when I came out to him were corpses. – Dan Savage