I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

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 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.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.