As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

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.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.