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

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

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.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.