"...he was on a trip abroad with his boyfriend"(65).
Do you double take?
Whenever I read a line like that I, personally have to reread it a few times to make sure I read the pronouns correctly. Usually it's made a big deal when a character is revealed as not being entirely heterosexual but here it was so nonchalant I assumed that my eyes skipped a line or something. This probably doesn't happen to everyone but at least for me it shows for me how much I am accustomed to seeing homosexuality as being made a big deal of in media