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

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

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

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.