Mr. Brudnoy, a veteran libertarian journalist (and frequent contributor to

National Review), is also a homosexual who, it having become widely known that he had

nearly died of complications of AIDS, decided to tell his own story. This conversation

candidly engages some painful questions concerning behavior, morality, and perception.

DB: "This is, I think, what we can expect in the future: that gradually people will begin

to look at what you are and do outside of sex." WFB: "That's silly. Nobody I know

says a homosexual can't be a good writer or a good bicyclist or a good anything." DB:

"... Trust me, Bill. I guarantee you, many of the people that I experience--not so much

nowadays, but early on--really could not imagine that homosexual, as one facet of a

lifestyle, and productive doctor or lawyer or whatever ... could be reconciled."