Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!allegra!root
From: root@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: forwarded message
Message-ID: <2018@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 04:10:04 EST
Article-I.D.: allegra.2018
Posted: Thu Nov 17 04:10:04 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Nov-83 02:08:16 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 34

Gays in the media; a pretty rare beast.  Of course, lots of actors and
"teen idols" are gay.  (A friend of mine worked as a bartender in a gay
disco in California, and could he tell you some stories!  However, I
don't believe in naming names.)

"That Certain Summer" is a pretty good book, but very different from
the story on TV.  The father leaves his gay lover to get married, not
the other way around.  Then his 17-year old son falls in love with his
father's former lover.  I am not surprised they rewrote it for TV!

"Brideshead Revisited" openly portrays the traditional homosexual love
that was a common part of the upper class British schools.  The Anthony
Blake character is a master of camp humor, something dying out today in
the gay community.  Anthony Andrews plays the beautiful, but troubled
Sebastian.

Mary Renault has written a number of books which deal with male
homosexual love.  "The Charioteer" takes place in WWI (II?) England.
Most of her novels take place in ancient Greece.  "The Persian Boy" is
the most famous, a true story about one of Alexander's lovers.

The main Lesbian author of our time is Rita Mae Brown.  She wrote "Ruby
Fruit Jungle" which is a must read for anyone interested in the female
gay world.  I haven't noticed any messages on motss from Lesbians, and
I don't expect to.  Those that I know would be as interested in what we
have to say about Lesbianism as a pig is about Sunday.

Movies?  When "Personal Best" was shown in Greenwich Village to a
Lesbian audience, they applauded after the first love scene.  That kind
of praise is VERY hard to come by.  I've given up on ever seeing a good
movie about the male gay experience.

				I just watch for Richard Gere,
				"Lance"