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Berlin might be grateful for love and recognition, but he rejects the idea that he's a totem of gay culture. "I don't buy any label of straight or gay. I don't function well in a group or within the setting of an audience. I'm a very solitary person. People tell me I'm this sort of icon for some people, and directors they hang me on the wall next to Marilyn Monroe. And who do I have hanging on the wall?" directors He gazes around the room. And from around the room, hundreds of Peter directors Berlins gaze back. As the afternoon wears on, Berlin decides it's time for a walk. He struts up Market Street, hailed by people he isn't sure he knows. He pauses in front of a poster advertising "That Man" outside the Castro Theatre, where Bus Station John, DJ at the alterna-queer club Tubesteak Connection, spots the slight figure in flannel and approaches to say hello. When "That Man" premiered at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival last year, John staged a tribute to Berlin, complete with billboard-size photographs and video clips from Berlin's films.
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