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...writing is foppish, runs to such Evergreen Review cliches as "this is clip street, hustle street-frenzied-nightactivity street." Despite such mannerisms, Rechy shows with something like objectivity the curious life of the homosexual "youngmen." There are the "queens"-men who use girls' names, feminine makeup and clothes ("drag"). There are the "stud hustlers"-male prostitutes. And the "scores"-the men who buy the favors of the stud hustlers...
Rechy's hero is a stud hustler who roams this world familiarly in Manhattan's Times Square and Greenwich Village, in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, and in the French Quarter in New Orleans (Mardi gras is Queersville, of course, because queens can wear their highest drag). It is a dreary world where the aberrant have made, and live by, their own conventions. Perhaps the dreariest part of it is not that so much of its business is transacted in the men's rooms of subway stations. It is that the homosexuals Rechy writes about...
...sending a liberal to summit conferences." Buckley's suggestion? An Old Guard union leader. "If we sent John L. Lewis, for example, he would come back with the Ukraine in his hip pocket." "All those parties," noted U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, 63, can be an awful drag on serious-minded diplomats. But since that is the way diplomacy goes, he told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that U.S. delegates in Manhattan need an extra housing allowance to offset entertainment expenses. Whereupon Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa confronted Stevenson with a Satevepost article called "This...
John Graham has similar problems as the Trumpeter. His scenes drag rather badly-possibly the fault of the script. Tom Adams is a boyish and pixiesque Mercury, helpfully advising his father on the mores of mortal love...
Talks May Drag...