AIDS has had the effect of forcing gay men to examine their sexual expression. - Michael Nava

What gays and lesbians have to teach other Americans is that morality is how you live and how you conduct yourself, not what you happen to be.

It really was a brutal place, Los Angeles, less a city than a collection of hostile villages united only in their mutual suspicion of each other and a susceptibility to disasters, natural and otherwise. Fires, floods, riots and earthquakes; it was looking more and more like Armageddon-by-the-Pacific.

This struggle is not about sex. It is about privacy, individuality, and civil equality and the right of all Americans, not just gay and lesbian Americans, to be free.