Fun Home Analysis

Fun Home: A Man’s Struggle with His Sexuality
History does not lack examples of the persecution and what could be considered a mass genocide of the people who are labeled as outcasts in our society. People are often fearful of being considered weird or to be seen as outside of society’s norms. However, there are also people who would die before having to shape themselves according to what society expects them to be. Every Pride parade shows us the resilience of people who are seen as outcasts in our society, people who, regardless of that label, are still proud to be who they really are. However, there are people who are incapable of coming out no matter what their wishes might be, people who live out their entire lives pretending to be someone they’re not. Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”

The Stonewall riots took place in the late 1960s, one of the most important events in the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States, however, gay people today are still often marginalized in our society, there’s still a stigma attached to being gay. Bruce Bechdel was a closeted gay man who lived in a small Pennsylvania town from 1936 to 1980. None of the people in this town were aware he was gay nor did they suspect is as he had a “beard” in the form of his wife and his children. Alison Bechdel noted how “he appeared to be an ideal husband and father” and how her family was a “sham” (Bechdel 17). He was forced by his fear of being rejected by society into pretending to be someone he wasn’t, forced into getting married and having children because that’s what was expected of him. Furthermore, Bruce Bechdel was too consciously aware of the gender roles people had to follow. Although he did not follow gender roles