- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
- American Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
- French People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
- Closet
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
- Exacting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
- Corrective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020