I've read it a couple of times, too. I'm reading one of her short story anthologies, The Birthday Of The World, right now, and the gender issues are all very interesting. There's a short story set on Winter in that, too, which very much focuses on the sexuality issues.

And I dearly wish people would all be like that. For now, though, I have to settle for terribly inquisitive, somewhat belligerent, and protestations of how I'm "different" when I claim I'm just normal. :p I consider myself only different in the way that people with red hair are different, but straight people don't often seem to accept that. Mind, that could also come from the fact that I'm only eighteen and most of the people I spend time with have barely put any consideration to it.