“The right to marry is about us, it is not about you, any more than the fight for integration was about white people, or a women’s right to vote was about men. It is only about you to the extent that you have to live with yourself knowing that you are depriving a significant portion of the population their basic civil rights.”

Actress Cynthia Nixon
May 18, 2009
at Broadway Impact’s Equality rally for marriage equality legislation in New York City