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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Celebrity is everything in this country.