Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.