Fun Home is a Tragicomic written by Alison Bechdel in 2007.
Alison came out as lesbian when she was 19 years old.
This chapter of the comic showed Alison in her youth (around 12 years old) discovering her lesbian sexuality. It displays her refusal to participate in female gender norms as her father attempts to push her towards it. She has experiences that uncover her sexuality, but also confuse her. She mentions many times that she very much admired the male form, and found the masculinity attractive, but in a different way.
She opens this chapter with the death of her father, most likely a suicide, which becomes the end all message of the chapter. She discovers pictures of evidence that her father was either homosexual or bisexual and was hiding it throughout his life. She had always noticed his "sissyness", as she put it. But in the end she realized that his whole life in hiding must have made him miserable, which began her journey of becoming herself. Not being "Lost in Translation" like her father.
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