I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.
I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.
I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.
During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.
I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.
I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.
I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.
If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
Film really is a collaborative art.
If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.
Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.
This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.
I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.
When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.
Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!
The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.
I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.
The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.
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