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.

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.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

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

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.

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.