This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle

My Private Measure Of Success Is Daily. If This Were To Be The Last Day Of My Life Would I Be Content With It? To Live In A Harmonious Balance Of Commitments And Pleasures Is What I Strive For.

If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

Casino Owners Spoke More Loudly Than Any Of The Other Kings Of Industry To Defend Their Contribution To Society. They Could Speak More Loudly Because Theirs Was The Purest Activity Of Civilized Man. They Had Transcended The Need For A Product. They Could Maintain And Advance Life With Machines That Made Nothing But Money.

The Terrifying Message Of Gay Liberation Is That Men Are Capable Of Loving Their Brothers. It Should Be Sweet News To Every Womanin The World, For, If The Capacity Of Men To Love Whom They Have Been Taught To Treat As Competitors And Enemies Can Transcend Their Education, The World Can Begin To Heal.

Now That Our Sexual Experience Is Increasingly Available To Us As A Subject For Contemplation, We Have To Extend Our Language To Express Our New Consciousness Until We Have As Many Words For Sexuality As The Eskimo Has For Snow, That Pervasive, Beautiful, And Mortal Climate In Which We All Live.