Q Puzzle: “What a Character!”

Across
1 Protection for one’s head
6 Ginsberg’s “Nagasaki ___”
10 The Lion King cad
14 Seedy dwelling
15 ___ instant (like premature ejaculation)
16 Lorca’s zip
17 LuPone Broadway role
18 Peppermint sweet you can lick
19 Cutlass, e.g.
20 Gay brother on Brothers and Sisters
23 Grassi of Queer as Folk
24 Maryland athlete
25 Output for Simon Sheppard and Carol Queen
27 Writer Castillo
30 Closemouthed
32 Streisand’s cross-dressing movie
33 Taylor of Six Feet Under
35 Pose for Bruce Weber
36 Gore Vidal, ___ Edgar Box
37 Gay art director on Mad Men
43 Senatorial seat holders, e.g.
44 Thurman of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
45 Tune type
46 Rock singer of Greek mythology?
49 Fail to leave a tip, at Star Canyon
51 Mary, in Montmartre (abbr.)
52 Fresh fruit, e.g.
54 Swedish import
56 Fisherman’s tool
57 Gay assistant on Ugly Betty
62 Chelsea Pines and others
64 Romantic island for gay honeymoons
65 “___ my case!” (Perry Mason’s close)
66 Patty Sheehan supporters
67 Capable of performing
68 Style Tracy Turnblad’s hair
69 Fruit-flavored ice cream maker
70 Sighted at a gay bar
71 It makes the bottom line bigger

Down
1 Chiang Kai-___
2 Shore opening
3 Word on a map of Israel
4 “___ Be”
5 Uranus, for one
6 Rimbaud portrayer in Total Eclipse
7 Like a meticulous bottom?
8 Doodle on Broadway
9 Look from Snidely Whiplash
10 Cone head?
11 Gay college student on Greek
12 Crackhead, e.g.
13 One who may act up
21 Snatches
22 Columnist Mike
26 Lions and Tigers and Bears
27 South Park’s Big Gay and others
28 Vardalos of Connie & Carla
29 The whole shebang
31 What you can do to your stuff
34 Like the walls of Paula Vogel’s university
36 PLO VIP
38 Caligula’s year
39 Nocturnal release
40 Post-lovemaking sighs
41 Madonna’s “To Have and ___ to Hold”
42 Be in the hole
46 Shakespeare’s Ariel, for one
47 Put the hot stuff to one’s pants
48 Gay interior designer on The Starter Wife
49 Frida’s wrap
50 Tex-Mex meat treat
53 Caligula playwright
55 Like the cheeks of one who streaks
58 ___ as Dick Button?
59 Samoan investigator Margaret
60 Gas brand in the land of k.d. lang
61 A Brit soldier may shoot it off
63 Snake sound