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Many Americans share the feeling that our society has forgotten how to mind its own business.

— Michael Nava Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

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The fact is that most gay men and women lead, or try to lead, ordinary lives indistinguishable from those of their neighbours.

Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.

Rag and Bone (2001)

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

Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

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.

Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)

They were empty gestures, the kind it was beginning to seem that these people were full of.

Goldenboy (1988)

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