There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.

I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the history books. John Winthrop wasn't off the boat ten seconds before he passes a law that homosexuals should be hanged. And then he hung 'em, including an attempt to hang his own son when he found out he was gay.

[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.