“[The gay community can] fight for our rightful voice, or we can continue to … slap one another and one day find ourselves without the electoral base to sustain the voice we already have.”

— Theresa Sparks

Letter to Bay Area Reporter as cited by the San Francisco Chronicle (October 21, 2001). Senate redistricting splits Castro: Gays accuse Burton of smoothing political path for Willie Brown http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/17/MN237054.DTL

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