"The gay scene can only legitimately be shown at the points in the plot relating to crime, and so enforces the link between gayness, deviancy and crime. And the actual visualisation of the gay scene can find no way round the impression of the grotesque"

(Jump cut,   no.18 , August  1978, pp, 15-16, A review of contemporary media, 2005)

 This centrally suggests the state of mind of the person at the time and referring to the word 'Grotesque' which defined as something which is odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character creates a binary opposition of 'them and us seeing homosexuality as something bizarre and different from the norm, then are often seen as people who are not ordinary.