The whole function of cities has been transformed.

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.

I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.

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

Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.

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.

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.