“We’re trying to change the strategy of the movement. We believe that the strategy that we have followed thus far – which was what made sense at the time and a strategy that was advanced by good, dedicated, hard-working people – is nonetheless a failed strategy. 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 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.”

“It’s fascinating to see what’s happened in the gay and lesbian movement in the last decade. How mindsets have changed, how civil rights have applied to relationships between gays and lesbians. It’s just fantastic.”

“I went and I got diagnosed and everything and I got the special swine flu drugs. I’m better. ... I had it. It’s over. It’s done. ... It is the predominant strain of flu now. First my girlfriend got it and then I got it. It was just like a really stanky flu, and I had to take a week off and Alison Stewart did my show.”