I had a friend when I lived in another city. He was a brilliant and kind and funny man who once wrote the scripts for Sesame Street and The Electric Company. He is also gay. He told me that he had had a very close friend once for 30 years. Out of trust, my friend decided to tell his friend that he was gay. His friend–the man he trusted intimately–pointed out that homosexuality was wrong and that it was a sin. He belabored the point, cutting my friend very deeply. The friendship was over, and my friend said that he found it very difficult to trust anyone’s friendship again. A magnificent human being, full of love and kindness, utterly devastated by a friend who thought he needed correcting.