On the other hand, I do feel it necessary to point out that when he writes a love story, it is just that, a love story. When he tells a joke about his life, it is just that, a joke about his life. When I tell a love story, it is a queer love story, and regardless of where my heart stands in the telling, I am making a political statement, or protesting the heterosexual hegemony, merely by engaging in the act of telling the truth about my life, and my love.