I wasn’t sure if, upon laying eyes on me, they wouldn’t know (by parent telepathy or something) that, far from behaving as a Christian young man should, I had spent the evening using illegal narcotics and engaging in sodomy.

John and I are gonna move to San Francisco. It’s supposed to be gay heaven up there.

I hope,' he would say, 'I will not disappoint him too badly for becoming … the things I have become.

I wasn’t sure if I liked him or not, but he sure had me interested in finding out.

Because, when you got right down to the real nitty-gritty, I didn’t really want to be anything other than what I am.