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.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

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

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.

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.