“It just bothers me that in 2011 this is still an issue — that you cannot marry the people you want to marry in some states; it just drives me nuts.”
— Gayle King, gal pal of Oprah Winfrey, in an interview at the Oct. 23 New York wedding of gay couple Bill White and Bryan Eure (New York Times, Oct. 23)
“When you see a beautiful woman, what do you feel?” Wayne replied, “It’s like when you look at a beautiful horse. You can appreciate it, but you don’t want to sleep with it. You appreciate beauty for what it is.”
—Conversation between Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and friend Ron Wayne, as Wayne came out to Jobs in 1974 when the two worked at Atari. Wayne was the first gay man that Jobs, who died earlier this month, had ever met. The discussion is recounted in the new Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. (Towleroad.com, Oct. 24)
Going through an old box of keepsakes last week, I found a card from my grandmother I received at boarding school. She’d enclosed an Ann Landers clipping with advice on how to make friends. She’d circled “Be confident, but humble.” I’m still working on it.
Helicopter parents. It’s a term originally coined in the book “Parenting with Love and Logic” by Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay, and refers to parents who hover over their children like a helicopter. Gay moms and dads, don’t let this be you.
