child abuse, animal murder
The stories include: 'Miss Gentilbelle' involving a man-hating woman who raises her boy as a girl, with disastrous results; and the dystopic 'The Crooked Man' featuring a future where homosexuality is the norm, enforced by law and where fundamentalists hunt down the hetero 'queers'.
'The Crooked Man', very surprisingly, was first published in Playboy in 1955. It draws incredible parallels between this future and the (present) of pre-Stonewall gays and lesbians, including government witch hunts, fundamentalism, and trying to cure a non-existent disease.
An abusive mother has such a hatred of men that she has raised her son as a girl and tried to convince him that he is one. When the child 'misbehaves' in any way she punishes him horridly. Only when the child begins to question his own gender does the abuse raise to a level that the child can no longer stand.
In this dystopian future artificial insemination and test tube babies are the norm, and heterosexuals are considered sick 'unnormals' who have a disease that must be eradicated.
Two hetero lovers meet in secret, aware that their time may be growing short as the campaign to destroy the queers grows worse and worse.