Gilbert Herdt is director of the Human Sexualities Program at San Francisco State University. The author of a number of books on gay men and lesbians, including Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Livesand, with Andrew Boxer, Children of Horizons: How Gay Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet,he is also the editor of numerous volumes including Gay Culture in America.Bruce Koff is the former executive director of Horizons Community Services, the largest social service agency for gay men and lesbians in the Midwest. He is currently on the faculty of the Chicago Center for Family Health of the University of Chicago and maintains a private psychotherapy practice… specializing in work with gay men, lesbians, and their families.