Actor Leslie Jordan’s plate is piled high – so much so, in fact, you’d think he’s taken one too many trips to a buffet.

“I do have a lot on my plate and I’m so blessed,” Jordan told the Gay & Lesbian Times in a recent interview.

Jordan will debut his newest one-man show, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (based on a book of the same name due to hit shelves June 3), on March 22 at Spreckels Theatre.

Jordan also has two television projects in the can, one for Logo and another for HBO. For the gay network, he’ll reprise his Sordid Lives film role, “Brother Boy,” for “Sordid Lives: The Series.”

Jordan was thrilled to step into pumps again for the “Brother Boy” character – with one exception.

“Oh God, it was hell,” he said, with a laugh. “First of all, you know I’m hairy – I’m an honorary cub with the L.A. bears ’cause I’m so hairy. I really am an honorary cub! I’m covered in hair from head to toe. I had to, once again, shave myself.”

To be among his Sordid Lives family again, though, made shaving worth it.

“We had so much fun, we went to Shreveport, Louisiana – Olivia’s [Newton-John] doing it, Delta [Burke] decided to not do it,” he said. “But, we got Caroline Rhea and we’ve got Rue McClanahan – she’s a blast, and I’d never met her … We shot 12 of the funniest episodes, and it is going to hit Logo in July, to much fanfare.”

The HBO series, “12 Miles of Bad Road,” costars Lily Tomlin, and was slated to hit airwaves in March. It’s on the shelves for now, Jordan said.

“HBO sunk $25 million into it, we shot a brilliant pilot, we shot six brilliant episodes – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (‘Designing Women’ creator) wrote it,” he said. “‘The Strike Train’ (Writer’s Guild of America Strike) shut us down, and we just assumed that when the strike was over, we would shoot our last four episodes and go on the air.”

There was some mid-strike turnover, though, at HBO, and people who worked on the project were told it was no longer a good fit for the network.

Jordan said the show, about a dysfunctional uber-rich Texas family, is being shopped around to many different networks, and he hopes it will see the light of day soon.

As for now, Jordan’s one-man show is his primary focus.

Jordan is frank about some of the darker paths he’s taken in life, including his past drug and alcohol addiction, and his subsequent sobriety. Jordan has the uncanny ability, however, to spin those trials into comedy gold.

“Once I got into recovery – I’m 10 years sober from alcohol, and crystal meth was my big problem – around the recovery rooms we share, and there’s great power in that, with sitting with groups of people, and people that you trust,” he said. “That’s the way we stay sober, is we put it out there – we believe you’re only as sick as your secrets.”

My Trip Down the Pink Carpet isn’t Jordan’s first one-man effort. The first, though, didn’t quite hit the right note.

“A long time ago, I had a one-man show called Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies, that had plagued my life thus far,” Jordan said. “It went all the way to New York, and ran off-Broadway – and I didn’t trust myself that I could just stand there and tell stories, so I had a full choir behind me of kinda’ big, fat southern women. They were like a Greek chorus. And, as I told my stories, they became the characters in my stories. And, then a lot of my friends, after that was over, said, ‘You know Leslie, that story was so much funnier when you just told it at the dinner party.’

“I thought, ‘Well you know what? I’m going to try and see if I can get onstage, just me, and hold people’s attention for an hour and a half.’ And, it worked – I was able to do it. And, so I thought that was that. When I finished Like a Dog on Linoleum, I thought I didn’t have much more to say. But, I always have something to say.”

Anyone who has seen Jordan in action knows that’s true.

My Trip Down the Pink Carpet follows Jordan’s rise to fame.

“It’s basically from getting off the bus in 1982, an openly gay actor, and working all the way up to my Emmy,” he said. “But underlining it all is the same journey, the journey out of the Baptist Church – I can’t seem to quit beatin’ that dead horse.

“What I’m doing is 30 cities, and I thought, ‘I want to kick it off in the two cities where I’ll be most comfortable’ – you know, sort of like workshop, get it up on its feet, put it in front of people – and so I chose San Diego and Palm Springs for my first two performances,” Jordan said. “They love me in San Diego – as my manager said, ‘Honey, you could get up on stage and fart, and they’d clap.’ I love San Diego, and that’s why I’m coming – it’s a wonderful gay community that supports me.”

As for the print counterpart, the book version of My Trip Down the Pink Carpet was born from Jordan’s love of documenting his experiences.

“I started journaling when I was 17 years old, obsessively,” Jordan said. “I don’t know what that was about – there was a lot of angst. And I just figured out when the scary monsters under the bed begin their low moan, if I wrote, it slows my mind down to the speed of a pen; and it seems to bring clarity when I write about things that are going on in my life.”

The book, published by Simon & Schuster in New York, is likely to irk at least one reader.

“My poor mother!” Jordan said. “You know my mother said to me, ‘Leslie, if I live to be 105, I will never understand this deep-seated need you have to air your dirty laundry! Why can’t you just whisper it to a therapist?’ I don’t know what it is about me regurgitating my life.”

“Even though my book is wildly funny, it’s dedicated to that young gay man, that young gay woman, out in the hinterlands. You know, we forget. I read this quote once that said, ‘In the gay community, there’s two kinds of people – there’s the fabulous and the fearful.’

It’s Jordan’s attitude that makes the 4-foot-11-inch star a man to look to up to.

“In my book, I call it ‘being on the pink carpet,’ we’re workin’ it and we’re fabulous,” he said. “But we forget that still in 2008, homophobia is rampant.”