“What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?” wrote Dick Michaels, editor of The Los Angeles Advocate. “What difference does it make whether the straights push us around directly or do it through other, uptight homosexuals. This is what the concept of ‘image’ eventually leads to. The image becomes more important than the goal.” Respectability Politics Book:The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America Source: The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America