Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.