Regretting the Gay Cure

Alison Bechdel takes up this same theme in her lively graphic memoir, Fun Home, about her father?s secret homosexual life, and the way he lashed out in baroque rages and frustration at his family. ?Of all his domestic inclinations, my father?s bent for gardening was the most redolent to me of that other, more deeply disturbing bent. What kind of man other than a sissy could possibly love flowers this ardently?? He poured his thwarted aesthetic energy into renovating the old mansion the family lived in, and she writes, ?I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.? He had hidden affairs with babysitters and teenage boys, nearly went to jail, and eventually killed himself. Bechdel writes, ?Dad?s death was not a new catastrophe, but an old one that had been unfolding very slowly for a long time.?

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