“Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.”
“In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.”