‘As a homosexual man I could have been in prison. As a woman I would automatically be though depraved. And unsavory.’ For the first time she glanced away. The inward compulsion, not choice, certainly not choice, made me go on, 'It’s what most people feel. What they feel is terrifying. And it isn’t even only that. It’s–oh, all the books you ever read being wrong, all the plays you see, the talk you listen to. The whole of life the wrong way 'round.’