“I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.”

— Björn Andrésen

Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/oct/16/gender.film The Guardian, 16 October 2003

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