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.

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.

Hope will never be silent.

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

Hope is never silent.

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