Barrett Lindsay-Steiner lives in Walnut Creek, California, and is a gay modern-day Renaissance man. He has written over 200 stage shows and over 500 songs, and has directed 15 productions starring over 300 kids while working as a drama teacher. The afternoon before his phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter, he said he had just finished prepping dozens of pastrami Reubens for an event his catering company was serving the next day.

Lindsay-Steiner said that he dresses exclusively in black and white and enjoys playing a white baby grand piano in his Art Deco living room. He has also hand-sewn dozens of quilts, including a special panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a block of which is now hanging in Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. The panel he made is for his late partner, Carl Daddio.

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