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My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.