In fact she takes aim at these sexual identity categories. Nor does she aim to prove the idea that ‘everyone is somewhat bisexual’. I grew up on ‘slash’ fiction featuring straight white men that turn gay (thanks Fictionpress) gay porn with straight gay-for-pay white men fantasied about the straight white boy in my class turning gay.īut that’s not what Jane Ward aims to do. Gay men have been apparently obsessed with the sexual lives of straight white men since being gay was a thing.
I was convinced to read it after seeing a thread on it on a queer Facebook group. I first came across this book early last year, in an Interview on Queerty I think with the author, Jane Ward and I instantly thought ‘absolutely no way’. Well… if you’re imagining a book length argument for why straight men who engage in homosexual sex are really, actually gay or bisexual just stuck in the closet.
