The answer came up that I'd probably do some silly cabaret show or stand-up act about what it was like to have been an actor. And I started writing those things down, and the more ridiculous stories were the really true ones, the stuff that really did happen to me. He knows he's achieved a certain level of political commentary simply by being who he is without any affectations. That's what the show's about. It's a basic story.
Every gay child grows up feeling like their sexuality or their differences are liabilities.
Then those experiences shape you, and then as you get older and you grow up you find that those liabilities turn out to be assets. Those things are what made you strong. The highs are simply related with the same kind of self-awareness that is brought to bear upon the lows. Every hard-won victory is matched with an equally crucial defeat. It's the resilience, not the accolades, that remains vital and memorable.