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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Gay
Accept
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People

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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, Never real and always true, and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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Fixing is the illness model acceptance is the identity model which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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Every organization does good and bad things.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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