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Andrew Solomon Love, no matter whatAndrew Solomon Love, no matter what

Even in purely non-religious terms,homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty.It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality --a pitiable flight from life.As such, it deserves no compassion,it deserves no treatmentas minority martyrdom,and it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness.0:44 Thats from Time magazine in 1966, when I was three years old.And last year, the president of the United Statescame out in favor of gay marriage.0:56 (Applause)1:03 And my question is, how did we get from there to here?How did an illness become an identity?1:14 When I was perhaps six years old,I went to a shoe store with my mother and my brother.And at the end of buying our shoes,the salesman said to us that we could each have a balloon to take home.My brother wanted a red balloon, and I wanted a pink balloon.My mother said that she thought Id really rather have a blue balloon.But I said that I definitely wanted the pink one.And she reminded me that my favorite color was blue.The fact that my favorite color now is blue, but Im still gay --(Laughter) --is evidence of both my mothers influence and its limits.1:57 (Laughter)1:59 (Applause)2:06 When I was little, my mother used to say,The love you have for your children is like no other feeling in the world.And until you have children, you dont know what its like.And when I was little, I took it as the greatest compliment in the worldthat she would say that about parenting my brother and me.And when I was an adolescent, I thoughtthat Im gay, and so I probably cant have a family.And when she said it, it made me anxious.And after I came out of the closet,when she continued to say it, it made me furious.I said, Im gay. Thats not the direction that Im headed in.And I want you to stop saying that.2:46 About 20 years ago, I was asked by my editors at The New York Times Magazineto write a piece about deaf culture.And I was rather taken aback.I had thought of deafness entirely as an illness.Those poor