The gay thing stands out in society more. It is what I had to come into. I was always Jewish, but I had to get used to being gay. Yet he doesn't think of being gay and Jewish as double jeopardy. Instead, he considers it a blessing of sorts.
Writing is all about exits and entrances.
It applies to being gay and Jewish. I feel there are so many parallels. I hope the twins are believable in the book as real characters with lives of their own, but also split halves of the self metaphorically. Mr. Lowenthal feels that Jews should be as active in the gay civil rights movement as they were in the 1960s black civil rights movement because of the issue of assimilation. I hope gays will learn from that and realize they might as well celebrate their own unique personalities.