[BRIEF NOTE] Douglas Coupland Comes Out

[rfmcdonald]

Via Opinionated Lesbian:

Advocate reporter: Doug, are you gay?
Coupland: Well, only if you'll be my date at the Tonys.
Reporter: It's a date.
Coupland: [Laughs] There was a funny... do you ever watch "Will and Grace"? The minstrel show?
Reporter: Occasionally.
Coupland: Karen says to Jack, "You're gayer than a clutch purse at the Tonys." [Laughs] I thought that was one of the best lines. How come The Advocate has never called up before?
Reporter: Well, frankly, it's because you've never gone there in interviews before. But I heard you had a new book coming out, and I thought, 'Damn it, I want to ask.'

I'm not surprised. Reading Microserfs back as a teenager, there was something about Coupland's voice--a certain sort of flatness, a lack of resonance relative to the inward lives of his characters--that struck me as queer.