‘I JUST DON’T WANT TO WAKE UP TOMORROW. I’M DEPRESSED, I CAN’T WORK AND MY FAMILY HAVE REJECTED ME BECAUSE I’M GAY’
‘I’m one of those faggots you are talking about.’ The defiant words of one man. A 50 year-old coming out for the first time to himself — and at work — after being subjected to a torrent of homophobic workplace conversations. And with that staggeringly brave admission, the caller had cut himself loose. He’s free but also facing an abyss of confusion. ‘I am trying to study the ‘gay scene’’ he said with resignation in his voice, ‘but I don’t understand how it all works and I am so alone’.