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

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

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.

Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.

I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.

The whole function of cities has been transformed.