(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. |
Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise. |
I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist. |
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. |
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. |
There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops. |