CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.