Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
