Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

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.

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.

Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.

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

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.