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

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

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

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.

I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power - it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.

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!