And I’ve forgotten that for other people, it’s actually still really hard.”
And I’ve kind of forgotten what was hard about it when I was young. “Being queer for me these days is so frothy and cute and fun – it’s just dancing and kissing. “Where I live, it just seems like everyone’s queer … To run into a straight person in my life is so insane,” he says. How To Be Gay is a survey of how queerness and its public perception have changed in that time, named after the words he typed into Google as a questioning teen in suburban Brisbane. Now 35 – he celebrated his birthday earlier this week, and says he’s still “feeling pretty dusty” – Thomas has spent more than half his life in the public eye. ‘I really was very nervous’: Thomas’s Audible podcast How To Be Gay took three years to make.
