Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

- Barbara Gittings

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way …

- Barbara Gittings

Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?

- Barbara Gittings

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

- Barbara Gittings

As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working wit…

- Barbara Gittings