Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much-awaited first novel, is a work obsessed with secrets. Leavitt, age 25, has been heralded as the "voice of his generation" in some quarters of the New York literary set, where his 1984 collection of short stories, Family Dancing, won gushing praise. Because he frequently deals with "gay themes," and because Leavitt is himself a homosexual, some have dubbed him the spokesman of young gays as well...
...Gay like his son, Owen has gone the route chosen by too many gay men of his generation: marriage, fatherhood, and anguished outings to gay porn theaters for furtive encounters in the seats. Twenty-seven years into his deception, the facade begins to crumble under the weight of his son's revelation...
Philip's homosexuality has been far easier than his father's. Blessedly born to a different generation, he has good friends, New York's gay nightlife, and for the moment, Eliot. But Philip hasn't escaped scar-free. His tortured, secretive adolescence, spent masturbating in the company of porn magazines and wishing his same-sex yearnings would pass, has left him unsure and dependent. He grasps his lover so tightly that the more worldly and self-assured Eliot eventually crumbles throught his fingers...
...best reporters are outsiders," but they are often "outsiders who crave to be insiders," said Pulitzer Prize winning author J. Anthony Lukas, quoting author Gay Talese...
America grew a little larger last week. The Northern Marianas, a group of Western Pacific islands (one of the best known: Tinian, where the Enola Gay took off for its atom-bomb run to Hiroshima in 1945), officially became a commonwealth of the U.S., and its 17,000 residents became U.S. citizens...