Quotes from George Weinberg


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


Homophobia is just that: a phobia.


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'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.


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


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


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


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.


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


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


All who love are conspirators.


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


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


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


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.


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