NYS Senator Eric Adams

"You don't have to be gay to respect the rights of those who are. You don't have to be black to understand the pains of slavery. You don't have to be Irish to understand the pains of those early Irish immigrants.  You don't have to be Italian to understand the pains of those first Italian Americans that settled on the lower east side and had to fight their way through the American system and denied merely because of where they came from. "

"You don't have to be gay to respect that two people that meet each other and fall in love want to be married."