There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

My mother had found this album of all these old slides from the '50s of me as a kid and I said, 'We should have these made into pictures because the color's so beautiful.' There were pictures of me from 1955 as a little baby wearing all these elaborate outfits, and in these pictures was this amazing story of a gay man and his mother.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.