Shame and the search for home.

Worse, as a lesbian, I fix myself confronted with a society that

seem to diocese only one social issue at a time. This meant I could talk
about privation and class but not about sexuality and sex identity. I
know that everything I have at any time written is only a small part of what
need to be written.
--Dorothy Allison, "Foreword," in Amber Hollibaugh's My Dangerous
Desires: A strange Girl Dreaming Her Way abode

What does it mean to be a singular of working-class origin who has joined the professional middle class on the other hand resisted assimilating to its values, smooth while ...