At 75, I Finally Stopped Waiting for the Unavailable Man to Come Around With John Mifsud

The Second Closet with Juan Galan · Nov 5, 2026 · 47m

John was my first guest on The Second Closet, and he was also my very first Coming Home client. He's 75, he lives in Malta where he was born, and he just threw himself a birthday party with a table for his meditation circle, a table for his family, a table for his friends and a table for all the gay folks.

We go back to when he was 14, playing the female lead in an all boys school show, and his father, who was already starting to slip into early onset Alzheimer's, came backstage and told him he was really good. A couple of years later his father didn't recognise him anymore. John went from…