They won't realize that gay people have something to offer until gay people realize that they have something to offer and get off this sex and celebration trip. You've been a slave all your life . . . All of a sudden, you realize for the first time, I'm right and they're wrong. You feel like a young god and it's a very sexual, psychedelic experience. You don't see it as a passing moment, as a phase.
People come to rely on the sexual experience as the key, as the answer.
They keep trying to repeat the experience. The sexual event of being gay is a simple thing compared to the next step. It's not a problem if you recognize that at times you have to compartmentalize your life. When most people meet me they don't know that I'm gay. Interestingly, Rostron and Swedenbourg said there's a difference between gay people living in the East Village and in the West Village.