Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I believed I was invincible.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.