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

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

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

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.