High School was a really lonely time for me. Even though I had friends, I was different in a way that had to be hidden to keep them. Every once in a while I would find a book that may not have had openly gay characters but dealt with the matter very well without mentioning it. I'm assuming that is part of the reason why gay authors would be banned. It would knock out quite a few of those books. It would also take care of somebody maybe enjoying a book and then reading the author's bio & finding out the writer was gay. Kind of goes back to where nothing positive was allowed when it came to anything gay.
