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In the Examiner, Kevin Starr defames and libels gays. In the Chronicle, Charles McCabe warns us to be quiet, that talking about gay rights is counter-productive. To Mr. McCabe, I say that the day he stops talking about freedom is the day he no longer has it.

— Harvey Milk That's What America Is" speech (1978)

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If Briggs wins, he will not stop. They never do. Like all mad people, they are forced to go on, to prove they were right.

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