Quotes from George Weinberg

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

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Hope never abandons you you abandon it.

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

Men are actually the weaker sex.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

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.

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

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

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

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

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

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

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

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

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

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

All who love are conspirators.

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, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.