Review Response:
Thank you to everyone who left kudos on AO3! You have no idea what that means!
Chapter Commentary:
All I truly have to say about this chapter is that I’m very unsure about it. Mostly about how it’s going to be received. In a historical context, LGBTQ people were not treated as nicely as they are today and Steve grew up at a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness or even a criminal offense in some places. Even if he would be the brave man we all know him to be and accept whatever consequence would have come about had it come out that he was bisexual back then, I think we’d all be fools to think he wouldn’t at least be a little afraid of it.
Also, historically the mental asylum Steve’s mom was talking about was inspired by places like the Willow Brook State School in Staten Island, NY (which Robert Kennedy compared to “the cages in which we put animals in a zoo”), the Taunton State Hospital in Taunton, MA, and the Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, MA. Abuse was rampant at all these facilities and lobotomies were performed at the latter two. If I were you, I’d take this as a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come.
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