“We atheists can... argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”

—  Philip Warren Anderson

p. 177 https://books.google.com/books/about/More_and_Different.html?id=tU9yOac455kC&pg=PA177
More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011)

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