Gayman

In coming out , we do not know any more than others about how to live the implications of our lives as openly lesbian women or gaymen.

“You mean," January asked, “that gaymen don't want to fuck with gaymen?” She looked puzzled. “How utterly droll!” "Not if they can help it,” Kick said.

The label, we are to understand, fixed gaymen in a “phase.”

A historical reading of sexuality may make living as lesbians and gaymen more difficult, because we cannot plead for acceptance on the basis of being something we can't help and therefore of needing special sets of rights and understanding because we are homosexuals who didn't choose to be who we are.