May 18, 2011 10:57 PM BST
Gay pride, late 1980s, in the loo at a pub in Kennington, South London, bloke claiming to be the Sultan of Brunei's personal bodyguard asked me for a kiss. Realised at the point that Wrigleys spearmint gum was a thousand times more improtant than ruminations on my sexuality - bad breath, whatever the gender, forget it ...
... mind you, if he'd been a gentleman he would never have told me I had bad breath!!!!!