Truman Capote spoke to us in front of the library. Microphones had been set up in the audience so students could ask him questions. The first question, from a kid with a distinctly Southern husky voice, was, “Are you a homosexual?”
Capote paused, and then in his tinny fey voice said, “Is that a proposition?”
Four hundred gay-hating white kids went insane laughing. I thought, Whatever that is, I want that.
Darrell Hammond, in ‘God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked’