It upsets me that young people don’t engage or bother with gay history. It’s there to show us where we are today. I came out when I was very young and it was a nightmare. I clung desperately to stories of the past so I could deal with the present: Wilde, Cocteau, Tchaikovsky. I was starving for that information and that power and used it to deal with the issue at hand. There’ll come a time we’ll be faced with bigger issues. Those are going to be the works we’ll relate to - not that Gaga wore a bacon dress.
