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.

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

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

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

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.

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.