Blog – Engaging the Text #2 on p. 479
Vázquez waits to disclose the fact that Brian and Mickey are actually straight in order to show that there aren't really any differences between gay members of a sex and straight members of sex other than social orientation. All along, the reader may be thinking that Brian and Mickey were gay, but the author finally releases that they were straight. That is meant to be a moment of clarity and realization to the author - that a person's behavior or appearance cannot be used to define their gender or sexual orientation. The issue of anti-gay violence changes majorly when we realize that sometimes its victims are heterosexual. Humans have a strong tendency to think, 'it's not us being affected, it's them". Somebody who is heterosexual suddenly becomes affected by anti-gay violence. This is sad, but reality of the world we live in. In reality, anti-gay violence is wrong whether it's them or us.
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