The law doesn't create a right.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.