As I have been saying for nearly a year, the law needs to be changed to allow the gay businesses to move to another part of the city.

We were given a lemon and we made lemonade. [These businesses] are part and parcel of the gay life in this whole metropolitan area.

When it was even seriously entertained that this would be a zoning issue, I blew up. Absolutely not.

On a one-time basis for these O Street establishments, they should be exempted from all of these restrictions so they can move as a group if they want to some practical place.

There's an ethical and moral obligation by the city for this group of establishments. The city created [the O Street cluster]. If these establishments had decided quite on their own when all this happened that would be a different matter, but they were very specifically directed to go down there.

Though you be absent here, I needs must say / The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, / As ever they were wont to be.