San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

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

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.

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