One of the major features of the graphic novel is homosexuality and gender identity. To begin with, page 98 includes various quotes that add very nicely to the idea of main characters who foil each other. Bechdel actually points out the differences between her and her father by saying, “Not only were we inverts. We were inversions of one another” (Bechdel 98). Through the two’s discussions this point stands as very true. In these panels, the two seem to be getting ready together for fairly elegant events. In the first panel it is a wedding the family is preparing for and Alison is requesting that her father allow her to wear sneakers to the event. He always knowing what to wear and dressing to the tees, declines this notion. This is when Bechdel mentions that through her, her father “was attempting to express something feminine” (Bechdel 98). This is a slip through of his homosexual emotions. Him being a more feminine gay, is allowing this to be seen through his attention to detail in his daughter’s apparel. This also slightly slips through into his own apparel due to his velvet suit he has prepared to wear to the wedding. The father showing his feminine side through his daughter contradicts with her masculinity that she is attempting to break through with. Bechdel mentions, “I was trying to compensate for something unmanly in him” (Bechdel 98). Meaning, the masculinity he lacked, she was going to make up for. The illustrations provided in these panels further demonstrate the inversions between the two characters. Alison is wearing a dress that she refers to as the least girly in the store. It resembles almost a sailor’s uniform with the bow around the neck. While she is avoiding femininity, her father is pictured wearing a full velvet suit embracing his femininity. Also, in her essay “Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Julia Watson states that, “Twice, Bechdel uses near-life-sized drawings of a hand holding a sheaf of photographs to call readers’ attentions to look at her intimately personal acts of investigating her father’s hidden history and her own identification with it.” And the>