He laughs. ‘I meant write your own stuff. Write characters like you.’ Well, that’d be a novelty wouldn’t it? A story about a young gay man; unapologetic, not dying of AIDS; has a love-hate relationship with gender norms. A story where his gayness wasn’t the only thing that defined him. A gay policeman, a gay doctor, even a gay guy just falling in love, and his relationship being of equal importance to the straight people’s around him.
