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Edmund White on Radio 1 currently

  • 30-08-2005 1:53pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    On Rattlebag at the moment.

    If you've read him, you should listen, and if you haven't, you should listen, and then read him.

    First gay literature I read. Fantastic stuff. Paved the way, etc.

    Still, hasn't given me the courage to do anything about my feelings :(

    The interview should be available on the website afterwards.


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  • #2
    tonyinuae
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    Are you saying you haven't, like, done anything at all yet? Seems to me that reading Edmund White puts you in a privileged minority, it's not everyone's thing, sort of highbrow, so it must be strange not feeling able to put all that understanding and insight into practice, as it were.

    Maybe you're very young? I was 21 before I dared go into a gay bar, myself.


  • #3
    LegacyUser
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    No, haven't done anything at all - that is, since I was twelve years old. But unfortunately I'm not so young any more; just turned twenty-seven.

    'Strange' is certainly one possible term for the feeling of having been fifteen years in the closet. When I think of my golden youth, wasted! :) The more astute of my friends and family surely know by now, so what's holding me back? Dunno. But hopefully I will find the courage to go to the next queer beers.

    Anyway, I shouldn't be starting threads anonymously. Bad form. Sorry about that, and also for coming off highbrow - didn't mean it that way.


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