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[Elena, about daughter] "Now I understand that it isn't up to her to be who I might want her to be. It's up to me to love her for who she is."

— Michael Nava Rag and Bone (2001)

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Many Americans share the feeling that our society has forgotten how to mind its own business.

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The fact is that most gay men and women lead, or try to lead, ordinary lives indistinguishable from those of their neighbours.

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This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.

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AIDS has had the effect of forcing gay men to examine their sexual expression.

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This struggle is not about sex. It is about privacy, individuality, and civil equality and the right of all Americans, not just gay and lesbian Americans, to be free.

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