{"id":79930,"date":"2024-05-20T21:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/?page_id=79930"},"modified":"2024-05-20T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:11:40","slug":"leslie-jordan-interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/leslie-jordan-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Jordan: Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:ugb\/button {\"borderRadius\":20,\"button1LetterSpacing\":0,\"button1Design\":\"basic\",\"button1Size\":\"large\",\"button1TextColor\":\"#ffffff\",\"button1BackgroundColor\":\"#1a73e7\",\"button1BackgroundColor2\":\"#ff512f\",\"button1Opacity\":1,\"button1HoverOpacity\":0.9,\"button1BorderRadius\":25,\"button1Shadow\":0,\"button1HoverGhostToNormal\":true,\"button2Design\":\"basic\",\"button2Size\":\"medium\",\"button2HoverOpacity\":0.9,\"button2Shadow\":0,\"uniqueClass\":\"ugb-c061eef\",\"align\":\"center\",\"contentAlign\":\"center\"} -->\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-block-ugb-button ugb-button-wrapper ugb-c061eef ugb-main-block\"><style>.ugb-c061eef .ugb-block-content{justify-content:center !important}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-block-content .ugb-button{border-radius:20px}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1 .ugb-button--inner{letter-spacing:0px !important}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1{background-color:#1a73e7;opacity:1;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1 .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1 svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1:hover{opacity:0.9}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-button1:before{border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-c061eef .ugb-inner-block{text-align:center}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-button-container\"><a class=\"ugb-button1 ugb-button ugb-button--size-large ugb-button--ghost-to-normal-effect\" href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/checkout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><span class=\"ugb-button--inner\"><strong>Contact Leslie Jordan!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:ugb\/button -->\n\n<!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3pk9JIjQZI\",\"type\":\"video\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"youtube\",\"responsive\":true,\"align\":\"center\",\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3pk9JIjQZI\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/contact-leslie-jordan-%f0%9f%a4%ad\/\">Leslie Jordan<\/a> is the author of '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Yall-Doing-Misadventures-Mischief\/dp\/B08PL4M1LM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived<\/a>' and '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Trip-Down-Pink-Carpet\/dp\/1439153485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My Trip Down the Pink Carpet<\/a>'.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Also See:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><!-- wp:list-item -->\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/contact-leslie-jordan-%f0%9f%a4%ad\/\">Contact Leslie Jordan<\/a><\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We first interviewed him in 2005, prior to his one-man show 'Like a Dog on Linoleum' in <a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/category\/celebrity-contact-information\/atlanta\/\">Atlanta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Where did you grow up in the South?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":27487,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"right\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/contact-leslie-jordan.jpg\" alt=\"contact Leslie Jordan\" class=\"wp-image-27487\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I grew up about an hour and a half above Atlanta in a small town called Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You can have it if you want it!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You lived in Atlanta for a while also, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Well, I came out of the closet in 1973 and had to find my tribe, so I moved to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was always sort of out, but not really. I had been sneaking into gay bars since I was 16!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Talk about the film, 'Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel' you wrote and starred in. It was a real hotel in Atlanta?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Pershing Point Hotel was at the corner of Peachtree and West Peachtree Just filled with hookers, whores, and queers.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was sort of like the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. Home to rift-raft.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I lived there for a time in the 70s when I first got to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was lost both literally and figuratively. I used to get so high that I couldn\u2019t even find my own apartment.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was right at the start of Atlanta\u2019s growing gay scene.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I remember Colony Square was being built.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Piedmont Park and Ansley Mall were becoming places to go if you were gay.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What was it like for you to be gay and growing up in the South?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sitting on the pews of a Baptist church in Tennessee is where I really learned to hate myself.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You feel so abandoned when you\u2019re gay and raised in the church.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My spiritual adviser once said to me, 'You\u2019re a fag hating fag.'<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I quickly realized that growing up in a devout Christian home was the cause of a lot of my problems.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I didn\u2019t have a choice being gay -- I literally fell out of my mother\u2019s womb and landed in her high heels!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":79964,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/leslie-jordan-interview\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/leslie-jordan-web-600x503.jpeg\" alt=\"Contact Any Celebrity Founder Jordan McAuley with Leslie Jordan\" class=\"wp-image-79964\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/\">Contact Any Celebrity<\/a> Founder <a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/about\/staff-profiles\/\">Jordan McAuley<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/leslie-jordan-interview\/\">Leslie Jordan<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Now that you\u2019ve been sober for years, can you talk about your addiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It\u2019s funny -- when I was loaded, I had no trouble being gay.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So I stayed loaded for 30 years.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 70s were all about disco and Quaaludes, the 80s were about cocaine and lots of money, and in the 90s everyone was dying from AIDS.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You can drink forever, but I had to quit doing drugs because I thought I was going to die.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Then all of a sudden, I was 40 years old and didn\u2019t know how to be gay without them.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Is it true you went to jail five times?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was very popular in the L.A. County Jail, but I don\u2019t think for the right reasons.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m a big talker, which is great if you\u2019re in jail.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Being able to tell stories helps a lot, especially if you\u2019re 4' 11\"!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You played Brother Boy, a cross-dressing gay man who craved attention in '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sordid-Lives-Olivia-Newton-John\/dp\/B086BH3734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sordid Lives<\/a>.' Were you always so dramatic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Oh yes -- I used to pull out my pee-pee in malls to get attention!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My mother always said, 'Can\u2019t you just whisper your problems to a therapist instead of acting them out for the world to see?'<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=del+shores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Del Shores<\/a> wrote '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sordid-Lives-Olivia-Newton-John\/dp\/B086BH3734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sordid Lives<\/a>,' which was actually four short plays that ended up altogether. My part of the movie was a play called 'The De-homosexualization of Brother Boy.'<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How is your life now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m a lot happier now and artistically saturated.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I got a lot of notoriety for doing '<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pilot\/dp\/B074R6BFJY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Will &amp; Grace<\/a>,' but I was sort of an aging show pony.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>They\u2019d trot me out on stage; I\u2019d do my thing, then they\u2019d trot me back off.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But in my plays, I have a say in the writing and direction.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>They\u2019re about my real-life journey into sobriety and queerdom.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you wish more characters would come out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You know, lesbians have their heroes in&nbsp;<a data-old-href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/ellen-degeneres\/\" href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/ellen-degeneres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rosie, but gay men don\u2019t really have any.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I sort of wish a big butch athlete would come out.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What I learned from working on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pilot\/dp\/B074R6BFJY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Will &amp; Grace<\/a>\u201d was that we could put a face to homophobia through laughter.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Despite your childhood, are you a religious person now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Someone once said, 'Religion is for people who are afraid of going to Hell, and spirituality is for people who have been there.'<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Even though I feel like I was spiritually raped as a child, I\u2019m not a deeply spiritual person.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Are you looking forward to coming back to Atlanta?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m always excited to come back to Atlanta because it\u2019s the South and only an hour and a half from my hometown.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When my one-man play, 'Like a Dog on Linoleum' was playing in Los Angeles, I would walk out on stage and know that there were about four southerners in the audience.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sometimes I felt like I was at a pony show.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019m like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=ethel+merman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ethel Merman<\/a> -- I can cry out of one eye and work the stage with the other, so get ready!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>-- Interview by <a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/\">Contact Any Celebrity<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/contactanycelebrity.com\/cac\/about\/staff-profiles\/\">Jordan McAuley<\/a> in 2005. 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