I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

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

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

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

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

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.