Gay friendship is vitally important to our lives and happiness, and, as I will argue here, matters for the rest of humanity too.

At a gay student meeting I attended in London at the beginning of the 1980s, someone said, “As gay people, we cherish our friends”.  ‘Cherish’ seemed a quaint word to some, raising a few sniggers, but as I look back it was spot on, for it means to love and care, to value highly, and to retain in the mind, embracing past, present and future in its scope Read the rest of this entry »