I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

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.

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.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

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.

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

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.