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no matter how difficult. I've never suffered. And so I'm going to continue with that line until I do suffer. (laughs)

Now, just to finish that little story: So weirin says, “I think they have to file a bond.” I think maybe he wanted a $3000 bond -- I can't remember the exact amount. They had never been in Central Park before. This is the first time they were going to end up in Central Park. He said, “You know, we've had parades, and we're charging everybody now. The Puerto-Ricans did a lot of damage, and we're charging them.”

And I said, “Now, look, it happens that the gays have paraded up 6th Avenue regularly, and they've never been charged with any damage. So if next time they do damage, then you should ask them for a bond. But you should take it on good faith since they haven't had any problem up to now, that they will not do any damage. And that's what I'm urging you to do.”

And again Weirin, who wants to get out of this room as quickly as he can, says, “Okay, let's do it that way.” And his counsel begins to object, and I say, “Who asked you? If the commissioner says it's okay, why are you telling him it's not?” So that ended him. And that's the way it was left.

Now, I sent a letter to Morty Manford, who is one of the gay leaders of the Gay Activist Alliance, and I sent copies of that letter to others saying, “Look, next year you're going to