Editing Truman Capote (section)

=== Sexuality ===
Capote was openly [[homosexuality|gay]]. Although Capote never embraced the [[Gay Rights Movement]], his own openness about homosexuality and his encouragement for openness in others made him an important player in the realm of gay rights.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grzesiak |first=Rich |year=1987 |title=My Significant Other, Truman Capote |url=http://www.axiongrafix.com/capote.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226220505/http://www.axiongrafix.com/capote.html |archive-date=February 26, 2012 |access-date=February 26, 2012}}</ref> In his piece "Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury", Jeff Solomon details an encounter between Capote and [[Lionel Trilling|Lionel]] and [[Diana Trilling]] – two New York intellectuals and literary critics – in which Capote questioned the motives of Lionel, who had recently published a book on [[E. M. Forster]] but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Solomon argues:{{Blockquote|When Capote confronts the Trillings on the train, he attacks their identity as literary and social critics committed to literature as a tool for social justice, capable of questioning both their own and their society's preconceptions, and sensitive to prejudice by virtue of their heritage and, in Diana's case, by her gender.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Solomon|first=Jeff|title=Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury |journal=Twentieth Century Literature |date=Summer 2008 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=129–165 |jstor=20479846 |doi=10.1215/0041462X-2008-3001}}</ref>}}