I have done many interviews, but they usually center on my life as an activist in the early years of the modern gay (or as we now say, “LGBTQ”) movement. I talk about my involvement with the radical Gay Liberation Front; with the founding of the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic specifically for gay men on the East Coast, in 1972; about the approach of the AIDS crisis and our community’s reaction to it—but I rarely get to speak about my growing up in the violent, racially segregated South, about my parents and their influence on me, about my leaving home at 17 and being almost completely out by that point, in 1965—about the intense tribalism of being queer in the early 1970s, that soon gave way to disco and AIDS (I’m not claiming a relationship—disco did NOT cause HIV!), and about my life as a writer and artist.
In Mike’s interview I get to talk about the full tapestry of my life, from “porn to poetry,” from queer science fiction to “The Manly Art of Seduction,” from HIV to Modern Dance.
I hope you will get a chance to look at it, and share it. Let me know what you think of it. If you have any questions for me I'm always open to them.

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