The larger world made it clear that same-sex attraction was the type of evil that turns innocent boys into child molesters or freaks, and girls into man-hating dykes and aberrations. And a few of my gay friends seemed to believe maintaining a fluid attraction to whoever ignited my body at a given moment was akin to living as a fraud and sellout. My juvenile fascinations with sex and attraction were expansive, but the rest of society preferred desires to be either black or white, “gay” or “straight.”
