Closeted gay people do, of course, lead rich, satisfying existences, even if they leave fewer traces. To be visibly whole.” I would have put the emphasis on visibly rather than on whole.
Here was a generation of men, more or less, for whom it was difficult to be visibly gay. In the book’s epilogue, he explains that he was motivated by the lives that these men “ wanted but couldn’t have. This proves a thorny task when dealing with men who led pointedly secret lives. Instead of focusing on the killer, Green opts to humanize his victims.
