A Confronting RevelationJosé was gay and it was obvious to him as it was to me that his sexuality had nothing to do with pretty blue dresses.
The story had an historical setting. A young man suffering social rejection for being gay didn't fit in the contemporary zeitgeist, at least, not in the western world. Even in the Canary Islands, after General Franco's repression came to an end, attitudes must have shifted, modernised, and they definitely had by the millennium when presumably the author of this protagonist would have been a child. Therefore, it stood to reason that if the script was memoir, and it was set in an age more traditional than this, the 1950s, say, then the author could not be the young man washed up on the beach. Unless Juan wrote the manuscript in the style of memoir. I
