It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.
Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.