What's the relation between male homosexuality as a sexual practice and male homosexuality as a cultural practice? What explains the cultural object-choices of gay men? What can we find out about gay male subjectivity by studying gay men's cultural preferences instead of their sexual preferences? And what are the sexual meanings of specific cultural forms? That is the topic of David Halperin's new book, How to Be Gay. In this lecture, he will present a few insights from it.