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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: gay books
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 14:58:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 14:58:11 1983
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Although I read it quite a long time ago, I remember being very moved by the
book, "The Front Runner" (author forgotten).  It's about gay athletes and
their chances in the Olympics.  It's also a love story.  Somewhere, sometime
I heard that they were making a movie of it, but I never heard anything else.
I do recall that it was written by a woman (which is fine except that the
book is about gay *men*), which made me suspect that some of the scenes in
the book were written more to manipulate emotions than out of personal exper-
ience, but it was still an effective book.  I hope that if I read it again
today I would still think it was a good book.

Heather {allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5, linus} rayssd!hxe