Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool.

Our people are not going to allow their nuclear rights to be seized.

Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.