well I'm buggered if I do.

Brendan said several times that he thought he would have grown up heterosexual if he hadn't been confined during his young adult years in the nick.

however if you read Borstal Boy , I think you can sometimes feel a sensual appreciation of the company of young men that is very reminiscent of Christopher Isherwood's early stuff - when CI felt he couldn't write overtly about homosexuality.

Also he wrote mainly about men - the memorable characters in his books are men - perhaps for obvious reasons.

Not nice calling him a fag. Call him a writer of genius