With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
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.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
I was born gay, just as I was born black.
I've been gay since the day I was born.
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.
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role models that were blokey that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.'
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