Gianluca Fabiani (Luca, as he is known by his friends) is the son of Italian immigrants. He has an older sister Adrianna. He had a fairly average childhood, though he guessed that he might be gay around middle school. He didn't really admit it to himself until the end of his freshman year, actually over the summer when he met a cute boy at a week long drama conference/camp thing. He had his first kiss there and actually experienced a great deal of kind of hushed acceptance from a few other people in the theater group.

When he came home that summer it wasn't at all to that same kind of environment. He didn't say anything to anyone about it and never saw the boy from the drama camp again. Throughout high school, though he remained closeted pretty much completely until the very end of his senior year when he was a little bit more open about it in school (but never at home), he endured a share of spiteful acts. Things like pink triangles stuck to his locker and name calling. He was shoved around a little bit from time to time but he was never actually hurt physically.

His sister knew almost as long as Luca did, if not a bit longer and she tried to look out for him as much as she could, but she was six years older and left for college when Luca was in middle school.

Luca's father had always done things to try to 'make a man' out of him, right down to insisting on manly shampoo for Luca's hair and being extremely paranoid about who Luca got to hang around with. His father also frowned on drama, but stopped short of forbidding Luca to participate.

Luca's mother never knew. She was completely shocked when Luca finally told her. He waited until after graduation from high school to tell his parents. Hoping that they might be able to understand and accept it. His mother had been completely in denial and she was devastated and she cried. Luca's father had no idea how to handle it and his first reaction was to try to fix it. He had always suspected, but seemed willing to ignore it if Luca didn't make a big deal about it. He was the one who threw Luca out. He told him that he couldn't come home until he was resolved to get this 'thing' out of his system. He really though that Luca could be cured and he blamed himself for allowing Luca to turn out the way he did.

Luca was devastated. He called up his sister in tears that night and she brought him to live with her in Maine for the summer. His parents cut him off from his savings to pay for college and cut off all communication with him. Luca ended up staying with his sister for an entire year. She wouldn't let him get an apartment and instead made him save his money so that he could get into community college at the very least. Adrianna had gone to a top school and she ran her own advertising agency. She wasn't about to let Luca give up on higher education. She also had a lot of long phone calls with her parents about Luca and she did not go home for Christmas that year, telling them she would be having it with Luca since no one should be without their family at Christmas.

Luca had a really rough next year, but he found a job, started saving for college. Made some new friends and learned a lot about himself while he stayed with his sister. To this day he doesn't realize just how much Adrianna did for him, pulling strings locally and the long hours she spent on the phone talking with their parents. The next summer Luca went back to see his parents and they sat down and talked.

Things aren't perfect still, but Luca's parents still love him, even though they don't understand him they're now willing to try. They've given him back his college savings and he's currently attending college in New York.

He's done A LOT of dating in his first two years of college, only a few semi-serious relationships, and a whole lot of being dumped. He's currently living with a roommate, Gideon - a blonde Jewish theater/English major type, and things are going pretty well.

Luca is currently an English major, but he's very seriously thinking of transferring to theater, and he'd stand a good chance of being successful in that field because he does have real talent. He starred in a production of RENT last year as Angel.