I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

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

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

My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.