Sure, I am a proud gay man, but I don’t identify as a Gay man, or a GAY man, or just gay. I identify as a lot of things, these various identifications and identities taking up equal space and making up an ever-fluid sense of Self.
THIS is what so many celebrities refuse to say. They skip the "I'm a proud gay man" part and jump to refusing to identify as gay and it always seems so fearful and cowardly.