Politics Is Theater. It Doesn't Matter If

All Young People, Regardless Of Sexual Orientation Or Identity, Deserve A Safe And Supportive Environment In Which To Achieve Their Full Potential.

I Ask For The Movement To Continue, For The Movement To Grow, Because Last Week I Got A Phone Call From Altoona, Pennsylvania, And My Election Gave Somebody Else, One More Person, Hope. And After All, That's What This Is All About. It's Not About Personal Gain, Not About Ego, Not About Power - It's About Giving Those Young People Out There In The Altoona, Pennsylvanias, Hope. You Gotta Give Them Hope.

We Will Not Win Our Rights By Staying Quietly In Our Closets.

To Sit On The Front Steps — Whether It's A Veranda In A Small Town Or A Concrete Stoop In A Big City — And To Talk To Our Neighborhoods Is Infinitely More Important Than To Huddle On The Living-room Lounger And Watch A Make-believe World In Not-quite Living Color.

Coming Out Is The Most Political Thing You Can Do