Miller is fully cognizant of that power, and so he frequently gives workshops when he is on tour in order to help aspiring artists find their voices. He has also taught college courses at California State University-Los Angeles and UCLA, where he is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theater, Film and Television.

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Miller won a 2006 Lambda Literary Award for 1001 Beds, a collection of performance scripts, essays, interviews, and journal entries. The collection illustrates vividly the way his performance pieces and his gay activism are inextricably linked.

In a 2002 interview Miller spoke of the relationship between him and his audience: "I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to be telling these tales of sex and love and loss and hope. While I hope my shows have emboldened and entertained my audience, the truth is the thousands and thousands of people who have seen my shows have also totally inspired me with their courage."

Governments, publishers, editors, and even gay writers themselves have censored gay content in literature from the Renaissance to the present.

Many gay and lesbian artists who have defied the legal and social prohibitions against explicit or sympathetic depictions of homosexuality have seen their art censored or suppressed.

Those countries that allow the immigration of glbtq persons based on persecution in their home countries often raise difficulties or apply the existing laws inequitably, especially in the case of glbtq couples who apply for entry as domestic partners.

The glbtq history of Los Angeles, the U.S.'s second largest metropolis, is replete with cultural, social, and political firsts.

Performance art has been embraced by queer artists as a means of challenging the very idea of traditional in art and culture.

Using bold images and confrontational tactics, ACT UP worked to promote awareness of AIDS and challenge the complacency of politicians and government officials in the early years of the epidemic.

One of the twentieth-century's most influential dancers and choreographers, Merce Cunningham avoided political statement and self-expression in his work, but his collaborative model may be said to represent a queering of the creative process.

The forthrightly gay Allen Ginsberg is probably the best-known American poet to emerge in the post-World War II period.

Lesbian feminist performance artist Holly Hughes has a flair for telling the outrageous stories of everyday lesbian life.

In addition to being a prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner has become a celebrity spokesman for gay politics and AIDS activism.

American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial images typically combine rigorously formal composition and design with extreme subject matter.

Bisexual African-American novelist, poet, and performance artist Sapphire came to public attention with works that focus on the harrowing realities of inner city existence.

Celebrating an ideal of manly love in both its spiritual and physical aspects, Walt Whitman has exerted a profound and enduring influence on gay literature.

Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness.