Quotation

The poem is misinterpreted as... a promotion of homosexuality. Actually, it's... more like a promotion of frankness, about any subject. If you're a foot fetishist, you write about feet. If you're a stock-market freak, you can write about the rising sales-curve erections of the Standard Oil chart. When a few people are... frank about homosexuality in public, it breaks the ice. Then people are free to be frank about anything and... That's socially useful. Homosexuality is a condition, and because it alienated me or set me apart from the beginning, it served as a catalyst for self-examination, or... a detailed realization of my environment and... the reasons why everyone else is different and why I am different.