"The point is that many can identify with the loneliness and isolation of those characters despite having little to no experience with being a closeted homosexual."
This is absolutely true, but I would suggest that you are speaking to how an audience who lies outside of a community are able to experience empathy with that community by seeing their humanity.
I feel like as this conversation has gone on, you're expressing that "Fun Home" isn't limited by its gay and lesbian content, in terms of the audience it can speak to. That's something different than saying it "isn't about" the lesbian story, and that the characters "happen to be" lesbian and gay. That latter construction seems to erase the lesbian and gay realities of these characters.
While you may be aware of the gay characters, when you write about the show, you divorce the dysfunction and decay from the root cause, which is that Bruce is a closeted homosexual who is aggressively policing everyone else in the family because of his own unhappiness. In doing that, you also erase (or, perhaps, minimize) gayness from the show. |
