My childhood best friend Steve credits me with being the first person to know he was gay. After he eventually came out, well into adulthood, he asked me how I knew. How did I know? How did I know?!
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FLASHBACK
INTERIOR - STEVE'S BEDROOM CIRCA 1978
Already long appalled that Steve watched the Hardy Boys TV show and endlessly played Shaun Cassidy's abortion of a song "Da Doo Run Run," I stood in his bedroom doorway and regarded the poster on the wall. Staring back at me was a gauzy, backlit, curiously-lacking-in-secondary-male-sex-characterics Shaun Cassidy. I said the only words that came to mind.
"That is so...gay."
And this, dear reader, was a revelation to young Steve. He gives me credit for possessing some sort of insight. Yeah, pal. And the sun is kinda bright, too.