" The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school. "

― Wayne Koestenbaum , The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire