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

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.

I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.