Let Us Be Enraged About Injustice, But

Today, Blacks Are No Longer The Litmus Paper Or The Barometer Of Social Change. Blacks Are In Every Segment Of Society And There Are Laws That Help To Protect Them From Racial Discrimination. The New ‘niggers’ Are Gays. It Is In This Sense That Gay People Are The New Barometer For Social Change. The Question Of Social Change Should Be Framed With The Most Vulnerable Group In Mind: Gay People.

If I Do Not Fight Bigotry Wherever It Is, Bigotry Is Thereby Strengthened. And To The Degree That It Is Strengthened, It Will, Thereby, Have The Power To Turn On Me.

If People Do Not Organize In The Name Of Their Interest, The World Will Not Take Them As Being Serious. And That Is The Chief Reason That Every Person Who Is Gay Should Join Some Gay Organization. Because He Must Prove To The World That He Cares About His Own Freedom.

I Believe In Social Dislocation And Creative Trouble.

Twenty-five, 30 Years Ago, The Barometer Of Human Rights In The United States Were Black People. That Is No Longer True. The Barometer For Judging The Character Of People In Regard To Human Rights Is Now Those Who Consider Themselves Gay, Homosexual, Lesbian.