Jack Drescher's critique is thoughtful and thought-provoking, raising many more questions than I can address adequately. Here are my responses—none adamant, all made in the spirit of keeping a discussion open—to his main points. First, I am not sure that contemporary, straight psychoanalysts are as prone to antihomosexual images and rationalizations as Drescher believes them to be. This perception may reflect, as he implies, the naivete or defensiveness of someone whose heterosexual identity has insulated her from insults that no gay or lesbian person could ignore. But it may also be that Drescher gives himself and other courageous lesbian and gay spokespeople too little credit, and that since