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Incidentally, another of the distinctions dismantled by Brown is the difference between fantasy and reality. She sets the end of her novel in a wickedly wonderful Mount Olympus, where a rainbow is formed each time Jupiter ejaculates ("Better than fire-works," comments Frazier...
Brown does not operate under the misconception that coming out is one long festival. She accepts the attitude of gay people like Frazier's former lover, Ann, who believes that "not every gay person has to carry a banner...
...Their view of you will change forever," Aunt Ruru explains kindly to her newly-out niece, Frazier. "You will be reduced to an object. It's not fair but that's the way it is. If you wear a purple skirt people will say it's because you're a lesbian. You own an art gallery. They'll say that gay people are always artistic...
Interestingly, Brown's distrust of the lesbian label is echoed by Frazier, who notes that the word has "a dolorous quality attached to it. Perhaps it was the number of syllables or too many consonants. Gay pleased her. It had a frivolous, light-hearted quality and it made her laugh...
...being a "gay author." With enormous relish, she has her characters tell stories of sniffing cocaine from an erect black penis ("It doesn't look as good on a white cock.") Nor does Venus shy away from the reputation of promiscuity enjoyed by the gay community. As she tells Frazier: "We shared our bodies. We gloried in the experience. I go my way and you go yours far richer than before we met. If I sleep with someone else, how can that take anything away from...