Word: queers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people--they start businesses with lovers and end up in Hollywood, Florida, with dogs and doubleknit slacks and I have no desire to write about them... But the failures--that tiny subspecies of homosexuals, the doomed queen... That fascinates me! The fags who consider themselves worthless because they are queer...
They are the high priests of libido--Malone is gloriously handsome, haunted by a vision of ideal love unattainable in a sterile, superficial homosexual world, Gatsby in drag; Sutherland, a Quentin Crisp, queer before it became chic, is doomed by his undersized member, a homosexual leper. With his speed and Quaaludes, his chiffons and Estee Lauder and bridge games and Egyptian groupies, Sutherland is Holleran's one truly brilliant creation. Sutherland provides much of the bitchy humor that makes Dancer, if nothing else, one of the funnier books of the year...
High-scoring Bruin Rick Scully and power-skating Dave Roberts pestered the Crimson defense behind the net and in the Harvard corners as the spirited Brown band kept the vocal crowed roaring and singing, "Ten thousand men of Harvard, 9000 are queer...
...seems as if someone is forcing Teddy to act the way he does. The scene in which Teddy directs Ryder to gallop around the restaurant like a cowboy and threatens to force him to make love to Angel on the counter while calling the terrified boy a "fag" and "queer," is psychic and physical torture reminiscent of the rape in Deliverance...
...author's greatest regret was his marriage. The disastrous union had taken place half a century before, to a woman he felt had tricked him into an alliance that violated his basically homosexual nature. "You see, I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed...