Some names that are associated with being a gay man are that we are characterized as child molesters and sexual predators. On the other hand, lesbians have been rendered invisible, dismissed as asexual, and depicted as unfit parents. ... Congress as a "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." ...
To support this contention, Blythe and many students cite as a key piece of evidence the narrator's explanation of why Homer did not marry Emily: Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. (126) The comment is not, of course, Faulkner's, nor is it entirely a paraphrase of Homer's original comment, as Blythe suggests it is. ... Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain. (120-121) ...
Those who have any understanding at all of the Catholic Church realize that their position is one built on the sanctity of traditional matrimony and traditional values, where a man and a woman join lives to create a family. ... One particular young man, when faced with his own homosexuality, questioned how he could be a member of the Catholic Church and still be gay. ... Val was a straight young man, but not fully comfortable of his father lifestyle. ... The fact that our existence is not recognized, that we are socially and legally invisible, leaves us without a single legal right - althou...
