One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.