“... in 1873, and moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska when she was nine years old. Her parents, Charles and Jennie, gave her an attic room of her own and the freedom to mix with the local population, many of whom contributed to her education and would appear later in her fiction. She was the eldest of seven children; it seems she was closer to her two youngest ...”

“... Lillie Mae, his broken-winged father Arch Persons, his blousy maiden aunts, Sookie and Callie and Jennie, who brought him up as a nearly-girl – he raced for the glorylands. Capote’s young life is a small, operatic cliché, a story of abandonment in a slow-burning Southern hollow, all the world held at a distance, all of a boy’s wonder clouded with local ...”

“... chastises for allegedly betraying his ideal of an anti-social homo-ness. ‘We are not family,’ Lee Edelman insisted (with apologies to Sister Sledge) in a keynote address to the Sixth North American lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies Conference in November 1994: ‘We are not ... and should not be under any coercive mandate of affection predicated on the ...”