Certainly My Parents Were Dr. [benjamin] Spock-driven

That's In The Nature Of Social Change. So You Can Analyze What Didn't Work, But It's Very Hard To Predict What Will Work.

Even There, [barack] Obama's Generals, His Pentagon, They're Telling Him What To Do. And The Force For Gay Rights Is Inevitable. And You Can Say Obama Will Help Us, And Maybe He Will, But Only If We Have Something On The Ground That Will Make Him Help Us. Frankly, The Gay Movement On The Ground Has Been One Of The Great Propulsive Things That Has Made Politicians Do What They Do.

I Would Say When I Went To Michigan. It Started. I Got Very Very Involved In Civil Rights In Ann Harbor Right Away. Picketing, Something I Never Even Knew Existed.

Something About The Fact That An African American Had, Given The Long Sad History Of Our Country, Now Become President - That Was Exhilarating.

I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely. And I Knew Him Probably As Well As Thousands Of Other Chicagoans.