George Weinberg

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.”

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

“But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.”

“Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.”