All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!

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

Out of the bars and into the streets!