All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

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

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.