What is the main conflict in Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg?

Butch, according to the dictionary, means "a female homosexual with mannish or aggressive traits." A stone butch has been so battered by homophobia and sexism and the intractable human fear of difference overall that her emotions have turned to stone - she doesn't know how to express the love she does feel, and is terrified of the love that others want to give her. A stone butch has every reason to feel the blues in Leslie Feinberg's critically-acclaimed, award-winning novel Stone Butch Blues.