[Henry, to Vicky] "I know you think homosexuality is a sin, but that's because you've been taught by ignorant people." - Michael Nava

A child's sexual innocence isn't moral, it's literal: he has no context for it. From the adult who uses him sexually, he learns a context

Larry was in his study, going through a pile of papers. Watching him, it occurred to me that I hardly knew him at all. It was as if all these years I'd been seeing him in profile and now that he turned his face to me, it was the face of a stranger.

"Abuelita," he said, groping for words to frame his thought. "Was today history?" "History is simply the passage of time, José, so we are in history at every moment."