Frank Moorhouse had been having sex with men since the age of 17 but did not openly identify as gay or bisexual.
David Marr, who edited Moorhouse’s work at The National Times in the early 1980s, told me in an interview about Moorhouse:
He was seen as a straight writer, no doubt about that […] it was really only with the publication of The Everlasting Secret Family [in 1980] that I began to think, ‘Oh maybe Frank’s a poof, maybe he’s bi, whatever.’
