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)

If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! – Author unknown, as seen on a button at EvolveFISH.com, c.1998

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 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