George Weinberg

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All who love are conspirators.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.