If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.

I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

Most people do not have access to medication.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!