“We have to recognize that this thing (homosexuality) so universally described as an illness just 50 years ago could now largely be accepted as an identity. He cautions against viewing the conditions he writes about solely as problems that need to be fixed or eliminated. Solomon uses his own experience growing up as a dyslexic homosexual, two qualities that set him apart from his parents and were viewed as flaws by most, to frame the travails of the families in his book. “Intellectually, the difficult part was trying to understand the ways in which these very differences had something in common, and coming up with the underlying idea of the book, which is that these individual differences are isolating, but taken together they’re unifying,” he said.
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