Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
Gay men in a very real way created my career.
'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.
I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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