George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

Men are actually the weaker sex.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

— George Weinberg

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

— George Weinberg

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

— 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…

— George Weinberg

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of…

— George Weinberg

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…

— George Weinberg

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman…

— George Weinberg

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

All who love are conspirators.

— George Weinberg

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

— George Weinberg

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

— George Weinberg

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still…

— George Weinberg

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of…

— George Weinberg