I am in the awkward situation of writing a foreword to a book by a gay person. This is an awkward situation not because Joe Perez is gay, but because I have to point it out. I feel the same damn irritation as having to refer to, say, Edmund White as a 'gay writer.' Nobody has to point out that I am heterosexual, although now I hear that I am not a heterosexual but a metrosexual, although, in fact, I have never had sex with a metro in my life. But I'm sure it is a wonderful experience.

Put bluntly, there is an archaic God, a magic God, a mythic God, a mental God, and an integral God. Which God do you believe in? An archaic God sees divinity i…

The occasional trip into realms labeled madness - can mean, especially if you are a writer, that you are given to telling the unvarnished, brutal, searing trut…

Human beings undergo psychological development. At each level or stage of development, they will see the world in a different way. Hence, each level of develop…

'Are you really gay?' 'Yes.' 'Do you think you were born gay or became gay?' 'Are you asking because you want to know if it's you fault?' 'I suppose.' 'To one …

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.