Occupation: Author Birth: 1956
You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember w….
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly..
I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker..
The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1….
There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But….
I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer..
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there..
I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about..
When one person mentors, two lives are changed..
If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world..
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a ….
It's always been hard to be gay in Washington..
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker..
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me..
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name..
I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale..
One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not a….
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human ….
When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David..
If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There m….
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends..