This week, New York magazines explains how a gay American is made. Via, of course, the personal essay of New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.

We haven't read the whole thing yet … not only because it's five pages, but because of that really creepy photo and the eerie way McGreevey describes his "gay in the making" experiences.

This is how it started. I leaned forward and kissed his neck. It was wrong. I wasn't an ordinary citizen anymore.

Weird. All this time we thought it just took one night at Barracuda, a few passion fruit martinis, and a Banana Republic polo to make an American gay.

The Making of a Gay American [James McGreevey, New York Magazine]