Judaism, homosexuality, and the two "ways" in Search for Lost Time

Judaism, like homosexuality, is a topic Proust approaches with a lot ambiguity. Proust was both Jewish (maybe half-Jewish?, same thing) and homosexual but in his vast novel in which almost every nuance of feeling and experience is examined and laid bare, the oddity is that his self-named narrator, Marcel, is neither Jewish (it would appear) nor homosexual. But there are differences between these two "outsider" groups, in Proust's mind and treatment: his narrator has a loathing for homosexual men and Lesbian women, which as noted in yesterday's post is a weirdly distorted self-loathing, loathing seen as in a mirror, projected, distanced, and reversed. As to the Jewish characters, Marcel has no such loathing or hatred - but many, probably most of the characters in his "set" do. The Jews are outsiders, on a fringe, trying to be accepted by society and by the nobility, but inevitably marked and treated as different: M's Jewish friend Bloch and his social blunders, Bloch's sister w/ her flamboyant and provocative Lesbian relationships, most of all Swann, seemingly of the upper caste but always somehow looked at with scorn, more or less ushered out of the Guermantes soiree ostensibly because of his views on the Dreyfus case. (Dreyfus and Proust is another potentially grand and complex topic, much of it a little obscure for today's readers though, including me of course.) Swann is a great collector and society figure, but can never attain the highest rungs, his social position only worsened by the fact that his wife, Odette, had a colorful past. Many of the characters say nasty things about and do nasty things to the Jewish characters, but Marcel never does - their anti-Semitism is a sign of their own ignorance and intolerance. He's not as defensive about this issue as about the sexual issues. I wonder if the famous choice of two "ways" (cotes) that he sets forth in the first volume is also a choice between straight and gay, and between his Jewish (Swann's Way) and his Christian ancestry (the more "noble" Guermantes Way).