I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I quite like androgyny.
I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.
Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.