I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.