"Secret Cy," isn’t so much a gay history of D.C. as is a history of Washgton as experienced by s gay power players.
Contents:
‘THE REAL VILLA IS THE CLOSET’: A NEW HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON DEALS WH SOCIETY AS IT TLY WAS
Francis Abernathy is a gay character om The Secret History. He is om Boston. He is studyg Greek along wh Richard Papen, Cala and Charl Maulay, Henry Wter, and Edmund Corran at Hampn College Vermont. He is an only child and his fay appears to be very wealthy, wh him... * the secret history henry gay *
Ambiguoly Gay: Richard has spicns about Francis (which are nfirmed), Charl (which are partially nfirmed), Bunny and Julian (which are not). Francis Abernathy is a gay character om The Secret History. Francis is gay.
None of them seem to md his sexualy except Bunny, who is openly homophobic. When Richard first arriv at Hampn he is surprised to hear Bunny’s vile ments about gay people, as he had thought that Bunny and Francis were iends, but Bunny ni that Francis is gay at all. Later the book, further along Bunny’s downward spiral, is revealed that Bunny do know about Francis’s sexualy, as most of the tentnally mean ments he mak towards Francis are of homophobic nature and specifilly target the, at the time of the plot, ongog AIDS crisis.
In the epilogue, is revealed that Francis had been seeg a man named Kim some years after his parture om Hampn, but that his homophobic grandfather had found out about and forced him to an arranged marriage wh a woman named Priscilla. Richard nsirs himself entirely heterosexual and even has vaguely homophobic thoughts, although he gets along wh Francis very well.