There's a couple of gay discos and clubs that people feel comfortable going to if they can afford it. But it's not a talk-show culture where people are going to feel comfortable going on whatever their version of 'Oprah' would be. It's very difficult. Everyone there lives in a two-room apartment with his or her mother. If I didn't live 3,000 miles from my mother in New York, I might be more reluctant to be as open with her as I am.
Privacy there becomes a mental construct rather than a geographic or physical one.
It's not just about not wanting to tell your mother because you don't want to be open with her. Everybody learned to respect other people's need to keep parts of themselves hidden because society was so set on exposing everything. I think before you see that you'll see people flocking to gay theater performances or thousands of people buying gay novels. They're very into cultural stuff more than, quote, political stuff. Politics still means communism, so even gay politics is considered a dirty business.