I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.