Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

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

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.