I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole.

The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.