Homosexuality In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

Hidden sexuality is one that hides their own personal sexuality. Embracing sexuality makes an individual a better person than hiding one’s sexuality simply that one may be supported as Alison is in Fun Home. Fun Home written by Alison Bechdel is a tragicomic about the main character Alison and her dysfunctional family living in a “Fun Home.” Whereas hiding one’s sexuality is lying, embracing sexuality makes one a better person given that Alison was accepted when she “came out,” while her father kept it a secret and was not the ideal father for it. In Fun Home, Alison attends Simon’s Rock Early College so she does not know what is going on back at home with her father. While Alison is in college exploring the unknown lesbian in herself, she decides to come out via letter from college. She states “But it was a hypothesis so thorough and convincing that I saw no reason not to share it immediately,” that lets us know she did not plan to keep her sexuality hidden unlike her father. She even joins a gay union on campus to embrace

Alison states that she hates pink, but her father does not take that into consideration. He likes the wall paper and so he tells Alison “Tough Titty” and puts it up anyway. Alison knows how talented her father is which is supported by the statement “My father could spin garbage… …into gold.” He not only forced pink flower wall paper into her room, but he makes her dress as a girly girl which she is not. After Bruce tries to force her to wear a burette and pearls, Alison thinks her father attempts to express his feminism though her. Alison finds a photo of her father in a women’s bathing suit, “He’s wearing a women’s bathing suit. A fraternity prank? But the pose he strikes is not mincing or silly at all. He’s lissome, elegant.” This proves that he hides his sexuality in real life but pictures is proof of his hidden