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Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.