And I am willing to concede that life may well have been better for Mr Boehner, and for many other white, Christian heterosexual Americans back then (although I wonder what chance a 60-year-old Catholic son of a bartender from Reading, Ohio would have had at becoming Speaker of the House in 1949).
Take an aging agoraphobic archaeologist, her married ex-boyfriend, a young lesbian with a crush, a heterosexual-adultery back story and an ancient artifact that could put our heroine in prison, and you have "Hadrian's Wall".
Threatened from so many different directions, white, heterosexual men fought back.
"It was outrageous to question the value of heterosexual relationships"; before taking back the night for women, you needed to take back the day.
Heterosexual HIV is coming back big time.
It's contained inside the word heterosexual so it brings back all the hurt feelings of straights cruelly mocking us.
"What's it going to take to get you into one of these SUVs, cowboy?" Dover tried everything to bring back his heterosexual nature - therapy, hypnosis, acupuncture, and voodoo.
"To be forced back into the heterosexual cage of coupledom is not a step forward but a step back into state-imposed definitions of relationship," Ms. Rule wrote in BC Bookworld, a Canadian trade periodical, in 2001.
Frank's daughter, Clarissa, back in the heterosexual fold after a happy stint as a lesbian, is coming home to visit; so is Paul, the son with whom Frank undertook the nearly calamitous trip recorded in Independence Day Various other characters from the earlier books crop up, most in worse shape than they were last time around.
But back then, through heterosexual willpower, I (unsuccessfully) pined after beautiful women.
But the sexual and homophobic harassment many of us LBT sisters endure from many of our heterosexual brothers of African descent back home in our communities, or imported from one of the Caribbean Islands, has, too, become an inescapably reality at P-town.
