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

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

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 am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.