“You’re worried. You know, from various statistics that have seeped into your brain via the media, that approximately one in ten Americans is either gay or lesbian. And yet, to your knowledge, no one you know is homosexual. Since you know more than ten people, you can only assume that this is because your gay and lesbian acquaintances are still in the closet, at least relative to you. Your fear is that one day, one of them is bound to come out to you — and you won’t know what to do.”

Includes advice for straight people that goes beyond the coming-out situation, such as “How Not To Flaunt Your Heterosexuality”.