I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.
I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.
Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way that we love each other now.
Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
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.
Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.
I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.
