One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.