It's the most perfect iteration yet of the thousands of Details gay trend stories. Here are four men who thought they were gay, or accidentally became gay, or were gay in practice, and now no longer are these days! One of them is putting on a show about it! (On a stage!) It is the greatest 1000-word trend piece of our time, massaged into the accepted, tiresome shape, with an expert quote from an expert who has never even heard of such a thing. It's really a work of great glossy beauty. It's a thing conveyed in words where the words almost stop meaning things entirely as they stop conveying and it's just almost an idea.

Take:

Despite the insistence of many—straight and gay—that switching between sexual preferences can't technically happen, Rothenberg isn't the only man to have believed he was homosexual before deciding that he was wrong.

So many people say this! Despite not knowing anything! About anything! For instance, when the numbers came out on the recent Hunter College Poll on the gays, and everyone freaked out because THERE ARE ACTUALLY BISEXUALS. Andrew Sullivan, who is an idiot, said that the poll was "rigged for PC purposes to inflate the number of bisexuals and lesbians." When really, it was the first time ever that an actual count had been made, by using the database of a country-wide opinion polling firm.

ANYWAY. The point here being that there is such a thing as an "IDENTITY" or "LIFESTYLE" and also such a thing as an "ACTIVITY." And that maybe sometimes people who do certain things also sometimes slide into being people who identify that way, and sometimes shouldn't, or can't, or are just lonely, or just like good music, and maybe are a little bit muddled, like that year in high school where I was pretty sure I was black. And so this guy thought he was gay just because he liked dance music and taking it in the ass. IT'S A COMMON CONCLUSION. But the thing is, he just enjoyed the sex, but also the lady-sex, and so now he is, ka-pow, totally straight. You start see where Gore Vidal was right about doing things v. being things?