We Will Not Win Our Rights By

It Takes No Compromise To Give People Their Rights

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 For Budgets To Be Passed, Surveys To Be Made, Political Wheelings And Dealings ... For It Takes No Money ... It Takes No Compromising To Give The People Their Rights. It Takes No Money To Respect The Individual. It Takes No Political Deal To Give People Freedom. It Takes No Survey To Remove Repression.

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 About It.

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 More Important Than To Huddle On The Living-room Lounger And Watch A Make-believe World In Not-quite Living Color.

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 Who Is Insecure, Terrified, Afraid, Or Very Disturbed With Themselves.