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Have you negotiated any other parade arrangements?

Nobody's asked me to.

But you're quite familiar with how this goes on because you go to all these parades.

I go to all the parades. I love the parades.

Was the main reason that the gays were difficult to deal with this attitude, the sort of paranoiac attitude of the leader, or as a group?

As a group. As a group, the gays are very difficult to deal with. I can understand it. I understand it completely. I mean they have had very great problems in getting public officeholders to come out and speak on their behalf at the City Council when they have their bill -- which is now a perennial - and I go and I speak for it. I have no problems in coming and speaking for it. It's an outrage that in the city of New York gays should not have the same rights as they have in 25 other cities in the country, where they have the anti-discrimination bills comparable to the gay rights bill which says that there may not be any discrimination based on sexual preferences