Occupation: Former San Francisco Supervisor Birth: May 22, 1930 Death: November 27, 1978
I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person w….
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight….
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about..
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods..
The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods..
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight..
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..
Never take an elevator in city hall..
I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by..
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….
I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave s….
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends ….
Hope is never silent..
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….
Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighbo….
We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We ….
Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo wi….
I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fier….
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 t….
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 ….
We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets..