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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.