One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
Gay men in a very real way created my career.
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.
I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
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