Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
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.

