Quotes by George Weinberg

• There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.
• Men are actually the weaker sex.
• Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
• 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.
• My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
• 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.
• 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.
• People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
• 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.
• The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
• We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
• 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 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.
• We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.
• What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
• Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
• Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
• 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.
• All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.
• All who love are conspirators.
• An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
• And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
• As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
• Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
• Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
• I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
• I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
• I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
• 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'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
• If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
• Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
• But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.