During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

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.

During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

Film really is a collaborative art.

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 do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

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.