And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves.
New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth.
I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me.
By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth.
Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.
Persons:
André De Shields, Lady Bunny, Michael R, Jackson, Juliana Huxtable, Wong, J.D, Samson, Pat Oleszko, it’s, —, John Rechy, ”, Danez Smith, Trump, he’d, “, Jenna Lyons, Avram Finkelstein, Joe Mantello, …, Catherine Opie, you’re, Willie Norris, “ I’d, It’s, you’ve, ” — Mark Harris Read, De Shields, Justin French, Chuck Ashley, Anthony Cotsifas, William F, Robert O’Hara’s, Hermes, — Max Berlinger Jenna Lyons, Antonio Lopez, Jenna Lyons’s, Grace Jones ”, Juan Ramos, Antonio Lopez’s, Grace Jones, Tina Chow, Marisa Berenson, Pam Anderson, That’s, — Jason Chen Jayne County, Jayne County, Gus Stewart, Billy Idol, Wayne County, — M.B, Bill T, Jones, Arnie, Arnie Zane, Zane, Keith Haring, Lois Greenfield, Jack Mitchell, Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, Gertrude Stein, Alice B, we’d, Bill, Arnie ”, I’m, — Juan, Norris, Yael Malka, Tomas Abad, West, Black, I’d, — Colleen Hamilton B.D, New York’s Eugene, . Wong, David Henry Hwang’s, Richie, wasn’t, Wayne Barker, — John Wogan Edmund White, Edmund White, Horatio, Leonard Fink’s “, Barbara Confino, Leonard Fink, Joseph Rodriguez, Bleecker, You’d, Gosh, Michael Snyder Pat Oleszko, Chichi, Kirsten, who’d, she’d, — C.H, Brian Michael Smith, Gay, Smith, Kiki Ball, Josue Infante, Skyler Cruz, Jamison, — J.A.R, Agnes Denes’s “, Don Yowell, Finkelstein, Agnes Denes, Leslie Tonkonow, Don, Agnes Denes’s, JD Samson, Sia, Mark Hunter, Anthony Cotsifas I’d, Johanna Fateman, Tigre, Michael O’Neill, Obama, might’ve, — Kate Guadagnino Kristen Kish, Kish, Suzanne Kreiter, David Moir, Bravo, isn’t, — J.W, Stephen Spinella, Mantello, Joan Marcus, Photofest, Tony Kushner’s, Louis Ironson, Milton Glaser, he’s, David, Marshall Grant, Joe Pitt, Walter, Awards, Stephen, ” —, Freedia, Devon Hurst, Sissy Nobby, Barack Obama’s, Lyle Ashton Harris, Big, Bounce, ” — M.B, Thom Browne, Browne, Los Angeles’s Chateau Marmont, Malcolm Venville, Paul Fortune, Michèle Lamy —, — J.C, Catherine Opie’s “, Opie, Ian, Lehmann Maupin, Eileen Myles, Jenny Shimizu, I’ve, Nicole Acheampong Danez Smith, Juan Cordero, ” Womp, They’d, hookups, Who’s, We’ve, You’re, J.A.R, Linda Simpson, India, Little Louie Vega, who’s, — K.G, Alexander Chee, Alexander Chee’s, Marguerite Duras’s “, Jeongneung, King Jungjong, Eric McNatt, Chris Chee, — M.S, Sam Jay, Jay, Jonah, Kumail ”, hadn’t, K.G, Phillip Lim, Lim, Tourmaline, Sylvia Rivera, Luce Capco Lincoln, York’s, We’d, Marsha P, John Cameron Mitchell, Larry Kramer, Mitchell’s, Mitchell, Martha Swope, Billy Rose, Mark Tusk, ” Kramer’s, Larry, Ned Weeks, Ned, “ Hedwig, J.W, Joerg Lohse, Reena, there’s, Matt Bomer, Bomer, Simon Halls, Neal Caffrey, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally —, — I’d, Hollywood, Wu Tsang, Neil Rasmus, Wildness, ’, Wildness ”, Roxane Gay, Mueller, Brandon Williams, Donna Gottschalk, Donna Gottschalk’s “, Duchess, Galerie Marcelle Alix, goddamn, Coco Romack Michael R, Aaron Kinney, Nova, “ I’m, Bob Damron’s, Sgt, Shirley, Waldorf, Harold’s, Jean ] Genet, Marcel, Proust
Organizations:
Pride, Stonewall, West, America’s, ACT UP, San, Playwrights Horizons, Odeon, New York’s TriBeCa, Electric, Getty, Police, Billy, New York Live Arts, Keith Haring Foundation, BAM Hamm, Liberation, Brooklyn Liberation, Brooklyn Museum, Fort, New York’s, New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, Broadway, Equity, LGBT Community Center, Fulbright, Mudd, New, Bisexual, Transgender Community, Center, Transgender Community Center, “, Maxwell, Museum School, Farmers, Seattle, Boston Globe, Travel, New York Times, Rancho Mirage, Gay, Caesar’s, FEMA, Yale, York’s Webster Hall, Masters, Records, Pyramid, Work, ACT, Carpenters, Seymour, Edinburgh, Atlanta —, Ninja, Huntington, New York, Lesbian, Equal, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library, The New York Times, USA, Children’s Hospital of Los, MoMA, Whitney Biennial, University of Nebraska, Alamy, HarperCollins, of Engineering, Google, Division, Astor, Tilden Foundations, Pershing, University of Southern, Pershing Square
Locations:
New York, Berlin, “, America, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York’s, New York City, California, Atlanta, Europe, Wayne County, Dortmund, Germany, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Rockland County, N.Y, ’, I’m, Brooklyn, West Dakota, Fort Greene, New, Leonard Fink’s “ Bars, Street, Rome, —, Aspen, Colo, Copenhagen, Danish, Peru, Los Angeles, Agnes Denes’s “ Wheatfield, Downtown Manhattan, North Moore, TriBeCa, Hoboken, N.J, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, Boston, Williamsburg , Brooklyn, Vinnie’s, Bedford, Austin , Texas, Copley, Menton, Asian American, York, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles’s, L.A, Hong Kong, Seoul, Casa, Koreatown, Minneapolis, Grindr, East, India, Wigstock, Tompkins, Vershire, Chee, Iowa, Huntington Beach, Chelsea, Barneys, Madison, Miami, New York State, Washington, The, LA, Silver Lake, Missouri, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Zurich, Central, American, Westlake, Los Angeles and New York, Lincoln, Alphabet City , New York, Lenox, United States, University of Southern California, Downtown Los Angeles