From That Song You Know the One About Love
Denise Duhamel

When Kyle told me he was gay it was like this I was in bed with a book waiting for his call he was always late lately which made me start to nag and complain like a wife because he was always with Mel this tall lanky redhead who was an androgynous girl androgyny was really in then what with Boy George and Annie Lenox but I had fifties' breasts and hips and long fuzzy hair and a closet full of dresses from the Salvation Army near Fenway Park Kyle was into fashion and Broadway show tunes which should have been my two clues right there I used to joke later but I was so young then twenty or so and Kyle was only eighteen and my gay friends from college were all so obvious drag queens or leather studs and Kyle was kind of all-American and uptight about everything our sex had to be clean and not very often his clothes were ironed with creases down pant legs....

Ontario Review #44