Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, no trials were ever held. At a hearing of probable cause on Monday, the presiding judge (not Haven Parker) denied requests for complaints submitted by Sgt. Michael Grossi of the Cambridge Police against myself and another student. No complaints were ever signed or issued...
Those charged are: Michael J. Bishop '70, larceny from a person, punishable by a sentence of up of five years; John E. Cross '69, assault and battery, carrying in a maximum sentence of two and one half years; Mark Ling, a Cambridge taxi drivers, malicious destruction of property maximum of five years; Carl D. Offner, a graduate student in mathematics, assault and battery; and Michael Prokosch '70, possession of narcotics...
WHEN ALAN refuses to be put off, Michael can do nothing except hope that his straight friend will have come and gone before the rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League-looking married math teacher and his lover, Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, feminine interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler being given to Harold for the night as a gift) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor has locked all those present into a violent carnival of sadistic...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...
...Michael, perhaps the most "anxious queer' of them all, uses the game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story," he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them...