I Had To Learn How

And There Are Men Behind Bars Who Pray For The Light And There Are Men In The Suburbs Who Pray For The Night.

And The Stigma Hasn't Really Changed That Much In 31 Years. You Are Still Getting People - It's A Shame-based Disease. It's Based On Sexual Transmission. And It's Still Shame-based. And Until People Feel Strong Enough And Feel Loved Enough To Actually Open Up And Say, Listen, I'm Hiv-positive, Then We Are Facing An Uphill Battle.

When People Go To Rehab And Come Out, They Go Through A Difficult Period, A Lot Of People. I Never Had That. I Was So Glad To Be Rid Of All That Crap That For Me, To Learn Again And To Function As A Human Being And Learn How To Participate In The Human Race Again Was Just Pure Joy.

I Think Jesus Was A Compassionate, Super-intelligent Gay Man Who Understood Human Problems. On The Cross, He Forgave The People Who Crucified Him. Jesus Wanted Us To Be Loving And Forgiving. I Don't Know What Makes People So Cruel. Try Being A Gay Woman In The Middle East -- You're As Good As Dead.

I Just Sit There And Make Up Songs And Sing To [my Son] In Gibberish. I'm Very Good At Gibberish Now.