“I think there's such an overlap between (Victorian) culture and Southern culture, ... There is repression and darkness and (a hint of) 'What's going on behind that respectable veneer?'”
“It started a whole new chapter in my life to discover my father was gay, ... I think it's very hard to discover that everything you thought you knew up to the age of 14 is out the window.”
“(It was) the fact that he had to keep secrets -- and I became a secret-keeper, ... You can't really marginalize or ghettoize a whole sector of the population, because it forces people into a life of shame. That, of course, trickles down.”
“My dad died 10 years ago, ... He was an AIDS death. I was fortunate that I was able to take two or three months off and be with him at the end. We were very close.”
