“Let me be clear. To those who continue to bemoan the removal of Christian prayer from our nation’s public schools: you are incredibly self-centered, selfish, and unaware of your our tremendous privilege as Christians in this country. If we were the minority religion, would you appreciate your children having to sit through an Islamic prayer led by their teacher every morning? How about a Buddhist meditation? You wouldn’t and you know it. Get serious, and learn to think of others. From one Christian to another: this is the United States of America. If you would like to live in a “Christian country,” please seriously consider moving to Liechtenstein, Costa Rica, or the nation-state of Vatican City. To those who force their religious beliefs onto those around them and have the AUDACITY to cast a vote declaring that that an entire group of Americans are second class citizens and should not automatically have the right to benefit from their life partners’ job benefits (such as health insurance, and surviving spouse SS benefits), visit their life partners in the hospital when they are sick and pick up their bodies from the morgue when they die, or share any of the substantial tax benefits of marriage…. simply because lgbtq relationships are not sanctioned by YOUR personal religious beliefs… you are not only on the wrong side of history, but you are, in my opinion, oblivious to what loving-kindness really means.” 

-My friend, Domo Hazzard

“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.’ Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.” 

“It’s time for us to stop saying that the gay rights movement is the new civil rights movement, because my civil rights movement hasn’t stopped: as a person of color, for me it’s still going. It is time to build coalitions with one another…. See the movement for racial equality and sexual equality as a fight we are all a part of.”