If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

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

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and for all.

To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

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

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.