“Uh-huh. Yeah. I think that it is looked at and some people are saying the same that blacks and women did not have the right to vote. I mean, women just got the right to vote in 1920. Blacks didn’t have the right to vote till 1870 and it just feels like there’s this old way of thinking that we are not all the same. We are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same. To me, what it feels like – just, you know, I will speak for myself – it feels when someone says you can have a contract and you’ll still have insurance and you’ll get all that, it sounds to me like saying, well, you can sit there (she points in one direction), you just can’t sit there (she points another direction). That’s what it sounds like to me. It doesn’t feel inclusive. It feels isolated. It feels like we are not owed the same things and the same wording.”

“One of the most transformative social movements over our lifetime has been the battle for gay rights, and the key to its great success has been the grass-roots phenomenon of exploding stereotypes by simply saying, ‘Yes, I am.’ Each time the woman at the next desk or the guy down the street lets it be known that he or she is gay, it takes another brick out of the wall of division. Or, as Ellen DeGeneres told John McCain on her show recently, ‘We are all the same people, all of us.’”