Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.

I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.

I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.

I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.