This article is making me mad for one reason: there is no evidence that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian. Her roommate at the time decided to say this decades after the poor woman’s death. It’s always amazing to me that old myths like the one created by Abe “I’m writing as bad as I can” Rosenthal give way to brand new ones.
I also think the author is wrong on another point: she drove home from work, parked near a subway line, and then proceeded to her apartment building.
The woman is just an example of “Look at me, look at me!”