Estimating Odds of Success

When I started my gay lib project in 1969, I thought I had less than 1 in a million chance of having any effect at all. After all, even all the gay people I know were opposed to gay lib and many straight people thought gays should be put to death if not worse. How dare I oppose 2000 years of Christian tradition and bigotry. Yet within three years we had the first civil rights legislation protecting gays. No one was more surprised than me. Ever since, my estimates of poor odds have never deterred me from doing what I thought was needed. I don’t think it should deter anyone else either.

~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:68)