“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, statuses, and social activities, and it can yield intense relations not resembling institutionalised ones. It seems that a way of life can yield a culture and ethics. To be “gay,” I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.”
― Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth