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

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

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.

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.