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...somehow failed to notice that the trousers had a hole in the knee and a slit in the seat, through which the tail of his shirt was showing. Shirts are a nuisance, anyway; when one gets dirty, he just rolls it up in a ball, stuffs it in a closet and buys another. At table, Marlon often drops his head to plate level and shoves it in, and if ketchup splatters on the tablecloth--let it. Once, so the story runs, he was found holding a piece of bread and dreamily buttering his sleeve. --TIME...
...plot in a Chinese-box construction of narration within narration, focusing mostly on Chubb's telling his story to Wode-Douglass in a hotel bar in K.L. It's a convention straight out of a Regency-era chiller: the aged friar revealing the horrid skeletons in the abbey closet...
...turns out, SAA and BGLTSA are not so irreconcilable. Western culture has been inundated with so many out-of-the-closet stories that it seems like we’ve seen them all. Even that ultimate gender-bending symbol—the drag queen—has become cliché; witness the Adams House jocks who were vamping it up on Drag Night last Friday...
...Green had instead said that he hid “his dead black slave” in his closet, we would react with outrage. Why don’t we have a similar understanding here...
...ideal is to have one-third gay boys, one-third gay girls and one-third straight viewership," he says. Of course, gay themes aren't restricted to gay networks. Mainstream TV's attitude toward gays started growing up in 1997, when American comic Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet in her self-titled sitcom. "It was an important lesson for advertisers and producers who are naturally cautious and who saw that people weren't freaking out, they were kind of interested," says Joshua Gamson, an author and sociology professor at the University of San Francisco. At the same time...