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Sexuality is a big issue in today's society, although homosexuality has gained more acceptance within our culture, the majority of people frown upon the idea. "Torch Song Trilogy" by Harvey Fierstein gives the reader, or viewer, a chance to see inside a homosexual relationship and also a heterosexual relationship. Finally being able to compare the two, one may find that they are genuinely similar, sharing the same conflicts and intimacies. Fierstein is trying to give the world an idea about homosexual relationships, proposing that all relationships share the same affection, friendship and understanding. He also offers a view of the fear that is tangled into a homosexual relationship caused by our culture‘s norms and ideas about sexuality.
The main character Arnold is a hopeless romantic, looking for love, it seems, in all the wrong places. He states "I have slept with more men than are named and/or numbered in the Bible and not once has someone said "Arnold, I love you..."......

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