Danny Says Page #3

You know, so gayness was not

a point of reference,

it was certainly

not a definition.

There was a columnist

named Lee Mortimer,

who'd disclose and expose

gay bars in New York.

It's like finding

a protestant in Spain.

They really were

rooting them out.

I didn't feel harassed

by the police,

but I didn't confront them

like they did

at the Stonewall either.

F*** it!

We had a good time and...

we all had to f*** each other

'cause it was like lesbians.

It wasn't like we could go

to the Firemen's Ball.

And with the gay liberation came

all these gay firemen

and stuff like...

Oh!

You know, that's nice,

be happy, but...

I mean, I didn't wait my whole

life for firemen to come out...

as a group.

Who cares?

I was in search of crazy people.

I'd just come from three years

in Philadelphia.

What else would I want?

Christians?

I want my people

with insanity in their blood.

("Blitzkrieg Bop" plays)

It was the same Sunday that

in The New York Times magazine

the lead story was

the soup cans.

That was revolutionary.

I thought that was really...

pushing the bucket,

or whatever you...

Cutting the envelope because

- everything good starts off.

- Being hated.

By The New York Times.

Andy was sitting...

on the sofa with Gerard,

and there was a woman crawling

around the floor screaming,

"Andy, I love you, I love you!"

It was Ivy Nicholson,

it was Andy's girl of the year,

she was in love with him,

and when she got close enough,

he'd kick her in the chin and

she just moaned and

- went over to one of the windows.

- And started to climb out.

I said, "Oh, my God!

That woman is going to jump!"

And I put my arms around her.

And then I said,

"There, there, you know,

- don't do something so silly."

- And then...

- I dunno,

- she took a sleeping pill,

- Or someone gave her.

- A Quaalude.

And then as we were leaving,

someone said to me,

I thought it was Andy,

- "Boy, we were all hoping.

- She would jump!

You sort of spoiled it

for everyone."

I was uncool by saving

this person's life at a party.

But the lesson is,

- it's sort of.

- An upper class thing,

You don't get all excited

about anything.

- I thought,

- "That suits me fine."

That's it!

- I was not worried about.

- Being uncool anymore...

- Because I knew all it took.

- Was to do nothing.

That's the whole model of

what that world was saying.

"You're better of doing nothing.

Look at it,

and let the looking at it

- become the thing.

- That you're doing."

Once you're in those

silver-aluminum rooms,

you were in the world.

- It was like going through.

- The looking glass,

t was action central,

people were coming to you.

- What a good way to be.

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