A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

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