This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

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 am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

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.

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