You’ve got to understand where David was coming from, so when Lou Reed would talk about the New York drag queens, for David that meant that America was the most wide-open, wonderful place. When David said in Melody Maker that he was gay—then he changed it, and said he was bisexual, which was what he really meant—he never would have had the balls to do that unless he’d been hanging around with Iggy and Lou. Because they represented this place across the ocean where things were changing, so fuck all the English hypocrites.
