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

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.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

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.

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.