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I've always had mostly gay male friends.

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

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.

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

Everyone I dated was gay.

Gay men in a very real way created my career.

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.

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.