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"Torie Osborn gives gay and lesbian Americans a practical, wise, and good-hearted guide to living in this country as one's true self. She also gives every reader ways to create justice for all Americans, and to liberate our true selfs." -- Gloria Steinem

"Torie Osborn has written a timeless classic that will be read with delight by future generations. She has successfully told our story, captured our spirit, and given us a blueprint for the future." -- David Mixner, national political strategist

"Coming Home to America is an exuberant work about courage and transformation. Torie Osborn gives us stories of everyday gay and lesbian life that will inspire all Americans to journey out of the closet of silence and fear and into a soaring new vision of self, community, and home. You will bless this author for giving us what we most hungrily seek -- truth and hope." -- Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Intimacy

"Coming Home to America movingly and eloquently underscores two overlooked truths. First, the movement for lesbian and gay rights is, at its core, intensely personal; every person has a story to tell, and everyone can make a difference. Secondly, the movement is profoundly moral; its central themes are love, commitment, and integrity. At every step of this astonishing work, Torie Osborn reminds us to hew to these two basic themes." -- Tom Stoddard, Professor of Law, New York University

"Torie Osborn has written a vivid and passionate account of one of the great contemporary liberation movements, as well as a guide to an effective political strategy. Her vision of a new style of leadership should be used as a blueprint by all groups who suffer from 'oppression sickness.' Finally, she manages to teach straight America a crucial lesson by describing the gifts of wisdom and of difference that gay America brings to the national table." -- Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth and Fire with Fire

"Civil rights has a new heroine in Torie Osborn, and a new platform in her historic call for America's invisible gay and lesbian communities to come out of hiding and teach America the meaning and joy of justice. In a brilliantly conceived, deeply ethical memoir, Osborn has crafted an appeal for all Americans -- gay and straight alike -- to embrace hope. When a story is told this well, it demands to be read. And when the truth is told this lovingly, it is irresistible." -- Mary Fisher, AIDS activist and author of My Name Is Mary

"Torie Osborn's Coming Home to America brings us all home -- out of the ignorance, fear, and isolation to understanding, compassion, and community. It is crucial reading for those who are straight and believe that love is a country club with membership restricted to folks just like them." -- Barbara Lazear Ascher, author of Landscape with Gravity

"Torie Osborn has given us a gem. This book glows with positive energy and tough thinking that lesbians and gay men in all our diversity need to realize our potential to be forces for transformation in U.S. society." -- Charlotte Bunch, director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University

"Torie Osborn, one of America's most experienced gay leaders, has given us a lively, provocative, and passionate vision of what gays and lesbians have the power to achieve, to shape a better future for themselves and the country." -- Mitzi Henderson, president of P-FLAG

"Torie Osborn is a masterful storyteller who weaves the true-to-life tales of lesbian women and gay men and their friends and families, as well as her own, to give us a book that is must-reading for anyone who wishes to work for the freedom of all citizens." -- Reverend Troy D. Perry, founder of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches

"Coming Home to America is a warm and readable book, invaluable for all those who want to help shepherd a progressive movement in the next millennium." -- Phill Wilson, founder of the National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum

"Coming Home to America illuminates the bold face of gay and lesbian courage. Moving testimony by dozens of Americans amplifies the voice of a movement that continues to change the world." -- Holly Near, singer and songwriter

"Osborn has the gift for igniting passion and political action in others. With Coming Home to America, she will affect a whole generation of gay Americans." -- Elizabeth Birch, executive director, Human Rights Campaign

"Brimming with human interest, verve, and humor, delicious difference and surprise, this is a book to cherish and to share with lovers and families, friends and enemies. Torie Osborn's visionary work is a compelling reminder of how much we Americans have in common despite our diversity, and it shows us how to stake our claims on the promise and hope of American democracy." -- Robert Dawidoff, co-author of Created Equal

"In gripping fashion, Torie Osborn makes many points clearly and persuasively about the power of coming out and of active involvement in the organized gay community. This book holds the reader's rapt attention from beginning to end, while teaching invaluable lessons." -- Franklin E. Kameny, longtime gay activist

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