Aussie diver Matthew Mitcham may well not have realised the enormity of ‘coming out’ earlier this year and consequently becoming Beijing’s only openly gay male athlete at the 2008 Olympic games.

Recently I was going through my bookshelf marveling at how many books a person could own and yet still not have read when I came across this little gem: The Lesbian Polyamory Reader – Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex.