Mish Grigor

My brother came out after an episode of ‘The L Word’.
As Carmen went down on a leggy blonde in a nightclub, he said, “I’m like that. I do that.”
My mother and I looked at each other, confused.
“Cunnilingis?” I offered, and laughed.
“No!” He said, standing up and rolling up his blanket. “Gay. I do gay. I’m gay. I do gay sex.”

The Talk is a terribly undomesticated evening from one of Australia’s rising theatre stars. It’s one account of what happens when you start talking about sex with your family: what ‘the talk’ is, and what it shouldn’t be.