“I’m not gay, and I’m not a transvestite.”

Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act.

In the context of the great debates about identity politics – are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on.

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.

The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.