[WT Sharpe]

.....When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. That reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.
..........— John Shelby Spong (1931- ), American clergyman. Quoted in the preface of Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (2002) by Eric Marcus. Making Gay History is an updated and revised edition of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History (1992).