I would look at pictures of ballet dancers, and always try to divine some kind of bulge. When I was a kid, there was absolutely no gay porno that I could see and no gay books that I knew of. Not enough to buy all the gay books, apparently.ĭo you remember the first gay sex scene you read in a book? There are only like 3 million of us or something. Because there aren’t that many gay people. I had both a gay writer friend and an editor tell me, “Couldn’t you just make this straight?” Do you still have to deal with the argument that your books would somehow be more palatable if they contained less sex-gay sex, in particular?
Your most recent novel, Our Young Man, offers a sweeping view of a complicated gay relationship-including lots of descriptions of gay sex.
