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.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

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

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

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 believed I was invincible.

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.