Love & Passion Quote by Julian Clary

Julian Clary lands this with the casual authority of someone who’s spent a career turning private life into public punchlines. The opening claim, “A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That’s what we do,” is deliberately broad to the point of provocation: it flirts with stereotype, then owns it as a kind of insider shorthand. It’s not “respectability politics” so much as comic misdirection. By stating the cliché bluntly, he controls it, inviting the audience to laugh with him before anyone can laugh at him.

Then comes the pivot: “But I’ve stopped all that - the revolving door into my bedroom.” The dash is doing work here, shifting from sociological generalization to tabloid-ready confession. “Revolving door” turns sex into stage business: brisk, efficient, impersonal. It’s funny because it’s vivid, but it also signals exhaustion, a sense that performance (sexual and comedic) can become mechanical.

“Promiscuity. That was of its day, really” is the sharpest line, because it reframes a moralized topic as fashion. Clary isn’t apologizing; he’s declaring a change in era, and by extension a change in what counts as liberation. For a gay man who came of age after legal and cultural shifts but under the long shadow of AIDS, “of its day” reads as both generational self-editing and cultural commentary: the old scripts of transgression, risk, and rebellion don’t hit the same when mainstream acceptance is on the table. He makes maturation sound like taste, not repentance, keeping dignity while still getting the joke.