This is actually a fairly deep metaphor and study on the reality of a lot of gay youth when you think about it.
Oh whew! Thank god! And here I was thinking that this story was dumber than ten meters of dirt road!
Good thing you explained those fine points to us, otherwise I'd have stayed mistaken.
Didn't knew of that one. Dropped it, hard, at the first strip, but thanks anyway for the info of its existence, this is VERY clearly a reference to it that now I get.