I was officially "outed" by Time Out a couple of years ago. They included me in a list of influential gays. I didn't mind - because I am gay - but I did think I'd better warn my sister, who had probably guessed anyway. As a much younger man I was very keen not to come out, like so many others, because of my family. In any case I wasn't leading a particularly gay life, though, of course, a lot of my friends were gay.