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“... At some point​ on a night out an older queen will swing down from the rafters to let you know you’re too late. Five, maybe ten years ago, he explains, it was much better here. The music was better, the clientele was better, the neighbourhood was less gentrified, more authentic. What is he still doing here then? It doesn’t matter. Encounter him often enough and you begin to understand that lost time can’t be regained, only embellished ...”

“... Peter Hujar, was dying of complications from Aids. When they were together in 1960s New York, Andrew Durbin writes in his joint biography, other people felt ‘extraneous in the room’; a younger gay man, watching them being extravagantly gay at a time when most homosexuals were in the closet or existed in a ‘semi-neuter’ state, thought that ...”