Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chastened, I followed her meekly into the room where I would interview her. This was the woman who had shown the world that there was such a thing as a lesbian, with her 1973 supermarket classic Rubyfruit Jungle...
Frazier refuses to define herself as a lesbian. This is one of the most refreshing things about Rita Mae Brown: she does not construct a rigid gay identity for her characters. The dividing line between gay and straight remains very fluid. For example, the goddess Venus--who materializes near the novel's end--believes that the division of people into the two categories is "a silly concept, but then you know people think in polarities these days. That's very destructive." Similarly, during her reading, Brown remarked: "I am never immune to the charms of the opposite sex...I just...
...Brown resents an attempt to pin her down. "I know you don't like being called a lesbian author," I said tentatively. (On the back flap of Venus Envy, she remarks that if anyone tries to define her as such again, she will "knock their teeth in.") "If you're going to label me, then you have to label everyone," Brown replied reasonably. "Then Norman Mailer has to be a Jewish heterosexual writer. See what I mean...
...closing, I would suggest that in the future Mr. Frank leave the use of chimerical coloratura to the opera divas because opera, as we all know, is a genre of the make-believe, unlike ethical journalism. Paul B. Franklin Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Issues Tutor Winthrop House
Provost Jerry R. Green, who chaired the committee, said in a press release that the new benefit program "is consistent with our commitment to the equitable treatment of the gay and lesbian members of our faculty and staff...