Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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.

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

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.

Are you?" I said. "Gay, I mean?"

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I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.

"No," he said. "I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not."

If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it.

I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.