People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

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.

I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.

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.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

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.

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