By Peter Robinson
This ground-breaking booklet explores the reports of homosexual males and their figuring out of what it meant to be homosexual in the 20th Century: from whilst homosexuality used to be unlawful throughout the much less repressed yet no simpler eras of homosexual liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic.
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But he did not leave his wife until relatively late in life. I stayed married for 30 years. I did not want to leave while the kids were growing up. In the end, we separated because the relationship had broken down. Brian and I met in 1983 and we moved in together in 1987. Brian is married too. I suppose that it must have been a gradual coming out over a number of years. I had gay friends who said when I was younger: “You have to leave and start a life of your own”. Of course they did not have kids.
Their lived experience is significant because it is an example of coming out as a long, slow process of positioning oneself against heterosexual expectations, of learning a new identity at a time when gay narratives were being created and refashioned. They are represented here by the stories of one man in his 60s and another in his 70s. Both came out in the late 1980s when—the AIDS epidemic notwithstanding—the social context was more open, and gay men were less likely to be regarded as mad, criminal or deviant.
Audience response In contrast to the young cohort, for whom parents constituted the crucial audiences for their coming out, audiences were more varied for the coming-out stories of the old cohort. Because these men did not come out uniformly, as teenagers or young adults, and their life stories are more complex—some were married, most led a double life for some 32 The Changing World of Gay Men part of their lives—their coming-out audiences are more diverse. In the stories of the five men who represent the old cohort’s coming-out experiences here, the first understands his audience to be himself, then two men describe how different audiences—a work colleague and parents—responded to their coming out.