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You came up from the underground scene in New York and you’re considered a sensitive artist type, and people may be surprised that you’re a Republican.
GALLO:
Let me tell you something about the liberal mainstream. They’re actually revolted and disgusted by the taste and sensibility of the lowest class of working people in America. Yet they pander to them politically as idealists. They reject and shit on their taste and sensibility when it comes to film and music and architecture and how they want to live. But I’m the opposite of that. I don’t reject the taste and sensibility of any person. I respect and enjoy the taste and sensibility of every class of people in America. Politically, I’m sick of special interest groups… And I was clearly connected with the homosexual underground my whole life. Gay men, in particular, were the most supportive, sensitive people to me. Nothing could ever make me have a negative view of a homosexual male or female, ever.
At what point did your political views start leaning towards the conservative?
GALLO:
Always! At eight years old I campaigned for Richard Nixon. And I’m not against individuals, I’m not against celebrating the differences of individuals. What I’m against is the homogeny of mankind because that’s regressive. To celebrate the differences of people is fantastic, but to blend them all together…