[Alicia] "What is false does not become true simply because people shout it. What is right does not change because it is inconvenient." - Michael Nava

Patricia Ryan was a tall, beautiful woman about whom many stories were told, some of them true.

The emergence of an openly gay and lesbian population is simply the latest stage of the evolution of individual liberty, and a reaffirmation of American tradition. Gay men and women don't come out because it's fashionable, popular, easy, safe, mandatory, or conventional; they do it to be true to themselves.

We must also again emphasize that gays and lesbians do not seek the right to be homosexual. This "right" is not one within the authority of government to give. They are fighting for the right to secure the conditions under which they may lead ordinary, civilized lives.