Is This Really the Values of a Writer of the 19 Sixties?

The novel is set during the civil rights era. It's a little unqueer, like, reading it now, it's a littleunqueer to me. How much of it is just the values of a writer of the 19 66 and how much of this is his imagined version of the future? "It really makes you understand exactly what it was that men were were up in arms about," she says.