after an adolescence spent in the late 50's, wherein only subtle, sometimes imperceptible, references were seldom made to the emerging sexualities of kids, like myself, who were seeking alliances outside the mainstream of suppression which reigned from the end of WWII until the liberating influence of the French, who were still largely homophobic, and the English, who unwittingly released their hold on the "one foot on the floor" sexuality with "Women in Love" and even a Dirk Bogarde film, "Victim", a claustrophobic and paranoid take on the phobia, 20 years before that. ......The scene, from "Eating Out", still conveys the current mindset of repression......Another 20 years....over a century after the trials of Oscar Wilde....and the veil will perhaps have been lifted.....at least in the big cities that hover above the morass of guilt and desperation, upon intellectual freedom and sexual nonchalance......
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Luncheon on the Sofa or behind the hanging shirts......just get on with it!
after an adolescence spent in the late 50's, wherein only subtle, sometimes imperceptible, references were seldom made to the emerging sexualities of kids, like myself, who were seeking alliances outside the mainstream of suppression which reigned from the end of WWII until the liberating influence of the French, who were still largely homophobic, and the English, who unwittingly released their hold on the "one foot on the floor" sexuality with "Women in Love" and even a Dirk Bogarde film, "Victim", a claustrophobic and paranoid take on the phobia, 20 years before that. ......The scene, from "Eating Out", still conveys the current mindset of repression......Another 20 years....over a century after the trials of Oscar Wilde....and the veil will perhaps have been lifted.....at least in the big cities that hover above the morass of guilt and desperation, upon intellectual freedom and sexual nonchalance......
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