- Danny: It's really scary standing in isolation from everybody else and that's what I've feared most of my life. The fact that I wasn't part of, part of a group.
- Sally M. Gearhart: We have been made invisible because the word might get out that women can love each other and the word might get out that men can love each other.
- Elsa Gidlow: If there was a problem connected with my being a lesbian... it was the loneliness, the fact that I didn't know anybody like me.
- Pat Bond: There were court-martial trials, and your friends were testifying against you, that yes, they had seen you necking with a woman.