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July.
Can anything be more appropriate than two pop icons from childhood coming out of the closet, after semester where a UVA student put up a "Gay? Not Fine By Me" poster in his dorm window only to return after a weekend and realise he had become Public Enemy #1? Nothing more classic than Lance the former Baptist choir boy from Mississippi have his mother discover his worst-kept secret online. (Although what kind of showbizmum would read a rumour and turn to the Internet to confirm it, rather than talk to her son?)
Three, even two years ago, no one was talking. Now, open sexual identity could very well revive careers. Post-Brokeback, people confessed and got inside their heads, tried to understand others and themselves, or have others understand them. Yet perhaps the more they learnt... the more they realise how little one can ever know. This is the age of frustration.
Neil Humphreys is leaving for another story! The man who lived on our island for ten years and loves it even when laughing at it. That is true journalism. Basically, friends-around-my-age, the era in which we grew up is over, and every time you blink - the world changes, so keep those eyes open.