The word homosexual wasn't used very well in the 1980s. It was a word to insult someone and to marginalize them as a person who was not normal to society. Society did not accept homosexuals for who they were and how they behaved. In a book written by Mary Laner, she shows how gay men were disliked and how this affected them and everyone around them. “The results indicate that both effeminate butch-macho men with personal styles are disliked, and homosexuals per se are disliked more than heterosexuals.” The characteristics of a homosexual are some of the things other people dislike him for. This causes them not to receive the same treatment or be looked at in the same way by normal heterosexual people. They are discriminated against and can't do anything about it because there are no laws against it. This is also very similar to the story we are reading in class. In the scene with Henry and Roy, Henry explains to Roy