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

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.

The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite.

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.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.