The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. – Armistead Maupin
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. – Armistead Maupin
I havent lost faith in human nature and I havent decided to be less compassionate to strangers. – Armistead Maupin
But its amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. – Armistead Maupin
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950