It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.