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Sperling and Price noted the oppression of gay people by fascist states. They were silent, however, on the oppression of gays by socialist states. The brutal treatment accorded homosexuals by the Castro regime in Cuba has become something of an international scandal. (See "Out of the Closet: Voices of Gay Liberation" for an account of the persecution of gays by the Venceremos Brigade.) In Mao's China, gays suffer similar indignities, as documented by Bau Ruo-wang's "Prisoner...
...mysterious woman by the same name whom the first-person narrator meets in Argentina. She lived in the ghettoes of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation--saved only by her Gentile lover on the "Aryan side" of the city. Despite surviving the Holocaust, her experience living in a hidden closet, every minute fearing capture and torture, has convinced Hanka that she is dead: "Those who stood at the threshhold of death remain dead," she says...
MUCH OF THIS BOOK'S criticism is political, but Kozol has no distinct political or theoretical position. He leans to the left, but never identifies his ideological beliefs: it is impossible to tell whether deep down inside, he is a closet social democrat, Maoist, or, what seems to fit best with his style of wholesale criticism, anarchist. It is difficult to discern the underlying basis of Kozol's critique--or to discover if he has one at all--for he fails to offer solutions to the problems he describes in such detail. In the closing paragraphs of the book, Kozol...
...filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer, who quickly ordered his star to buy a pair of snakeskin boots. However, the footwear footage ended up on the cutting-room floor, and the $700 Italian boots were consigned to a far corner of Elke's closet...
...capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...