It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

I believed I was invincible.