Hope will never be silent.

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

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

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

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

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