People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

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

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.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

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

If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.