Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

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

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.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

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.