image Exactly. I just know that he mentioned Chris finally flat-out asked him one summer, and in his "YAY ANNIVERSARY!" blog, he said that sometimes it's easiest just to have somebody ask you. I feel like, he was introducing these men to his parents, just hoping that one day they'd finally go "OH! I get it now!" so that he wouldn't have to go through what he went through with them.

They were obviously heavily into denial though. There is no way you are a parent to someone for 27 years, and NOT realize, on at least some level of consciousness, that your kid is gay. It's pretty much impossible.