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

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.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

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