““Ah. We are men, of an age, in a city that both is much like New York and is New York, so this question must mean when did I know I was (whisper) (you know) (gay). How can we have been friends for so long, I wonder, and never have gotten to this? This used to be the question, back in the great dead then, in the days before knowledge had turned into information. Forever; that was an answer. Or sophomore year.””