I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

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

I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

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

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

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.