I really don't agree with this statement, not entirely. As a member of Queer Nation and Act Up, I often joined hundreds, or thousands (and once, even hundreds of thousands) of queer people in the streets expressing our anger at the shitty way society treated us, to the point of not making AIDS, a disease that was killing us in horrifying numbers, a national medical priority.

We were fiercely angry, and we expected that violence might be employed it against us, and sometimes it was. Police often beat us with their clubs, and random strangers would attack us.

We were willing to wield our anger and risk violence to stand up for our right to exist as free and equal people in our society — a right that at the time much of society thought was beyond the pale.

We knew we were right, we knew we deserved to be treated like anybody else, and we were willing to fight for it.

I think that's really important.

I think it's really important for people to know when they're right and to fight as hard as they can.