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.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

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.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

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

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.