It took him five years to tell. Until his close friends and everyone in the family knew he was gay. When he came out for the first time in front of his best buddy, the two of them were together in the Munich nightclub Willenlos, probably the most unusual place one can imagine for a coming out. In the dim light and with loud music, Maximilian Pichlmeier, today 26, told his buddy that he had met a man and that he believed he was into men.