sentences:  His Christian upbringing would clash with his growing realisation of his homosexuality in his teenage years .By the age of 20, his experiences had ultimately led him to decide to be true to his sexual nature.While exploring the London independent pop scene of the early 1990s, McAlmont encountered Saul Freeman, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and programmer with whom he formed Thieves (naming the band after a work by Jean Cocteau).