I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.