This ebook is the first time all my short stories about being young and gay / lesbian have been gathered together. When I was asked to write a story for an anthology someone else was editing, I often used to write about LGBQ characters, because it gave me a chance to investigate all sorts of different aspects of being LGBQ – and because it meant that the anthology as a whole would reflect the fact that, as my favourite political slogan says, “some people are gay”. Some of these stories are funny and some are sad; some of them are about coming out to yourself, some are about how to deal with the way other people react and some are about getting on with the everyday business of being LGBQ.