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

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 m….

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country..

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….

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk a….

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into some….

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be p….

It takes no compromise to give people their rights.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads..

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up..

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my s….

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door..

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street..

I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoon….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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….

Never take an elevator in city hall..

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods..