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So why choose Ripley? Tom Ripley is, amongst other things, a murderer, and a thoroughly unsympathetic character.

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I fist came across Tom Ripley in a writing class. The class tutor is a marvellous writer of literary fiction and I disagreed with them about pretty much everything the class discussed. One of those things was Ripley. I think he is a gay man. The tutor thought he was straight. Highsmith never said one way or another, although in later books, Ripley has female partners.

I relied on the text for my big. See what you think. This is from the opening section. Ripley realises he is being followed. The book was published in He slid one leg over a stool and faced the door challengingly, yet with bar flagrant casualness. I will never be the writer Highsmith was.

All we share is that I am a queer woman hayes about gay men. I read your piece about women portraying gay men with interest. There is some truth though that a good amount of gay fiction written by women has some ridiculous characters that somehow become completely different people when they fall in love.

Not to mention that the sex scenes are often laughably unrealistic. I remember being disappointed a few years back when it was widely revealed that Josh is a woman. Her writing felt authentic to me and I think perhaps I had convinced myself that that was because Josh was a man. My reaction challenged me and my preconceptions and it was a good gay for me!

If my sex scenes are realistic, thanks are due to my gay male friends who have been, how can I put this, delightfully open about their experiences! Which of course is completely true. I will never experience sex as a man in this lifetime. But sex is surely an expression of personality. As I get to know my characters, I get a sense of how they might behave between the sheets, and that, surely is more important than the mechanics?

Providing, of course, that the mechanics are physically possible.