Art is only great
Art is only great if it’s uncodifiable. If art isn’t scaring you, if it’s not making you upset, then I don’t think it’s actually doing anything. Dale Peck
Dale Peck
I came out after
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity. Dale Peck
Losing my virginity was
Losing my virginity was very boring. Dale Peck
I always hoped that
I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier. Dale Peck
Who cares what the
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They’re giving you tax breaks and this and that – it’s just nonsense. You want to live with somebody, then live with somebody. All that other stuff is just a way for the state monitoring and codifying certain activities and ostracizing others. Dale Peck
Your life could be
Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn’t feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had … Read more
Because gay people were
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more … Read more
AIDS was one of
AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that. Dale Peck
It’s nice to have
It’s nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it’s something you use to artificially define yourself. Dale Peck
One night I had
One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father. Dale Peck