When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

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.

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.

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

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.

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

Most people do not have access to medication.