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Christopher Bram

Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.

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Christopher Bram

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

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Christopher Bram

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

Christopher Bram

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

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Christopher Bram

History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.

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Christopher Bram

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

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Christopher Bram

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

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Christopher Bram

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Christopher Bram

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

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Christopher Bram

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

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Christopher Bram

Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

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Christopher Bram

A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.

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