>it's ok to have a gay phase as long as you grow up out of it>but if you don't you, you will end up bitter, poor and diseasedwow
>>24717190Sebastian was a degenerate aristocrat who was setting the sodomy agenda. Charles was an upwardly mobile naïf who went with the flow, then agonised about it (amongst other sins that are deservedly given more narrative prominence), then sought and found grace.
>>24717190If you don’t have the phase, or if you don’t grow out of it?
Sebastian’s fate is chiefly because he is plagued by alcoholism and the dissonance between his faith and deeds. Charles is undone less by his relationship with Sebastian and more by his attempt to seduce Julia away from her faith.
>>24717190i wrote a nice gay phase novel with a better conclusion. i hope you give it a chance
I didn't get the point of this novel at all. I thought they were just good friends.
I am gay, and yet Catholic. Catholic, and yet gay. This is the contradiction tearing me asunder. This is my plight. This is my novel.
>>24717524Based. I face similar internal contradictions and Brideshead was the first work of fiction in a long time to make me feel deeply. in all honesty I think being gay, and being a gay man specifically, is a very longstanding catholic experience. That’s not meant a slur - I think monasteries, the priesthood etc. were a refuge for a lot of dudes.
>>24717524I'm Protestant and straight
>>24717429The italian lover of Sebastian's father kinda points out they were kinda gay for each other.
