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Published Thursday, 13-Nov-2008 in issue 1090
“Oh, cricket? It’s a fag game. What are you, nuts?”
“Susan cooks dinner; I make drinks. We stay up all night talking or watching movies. Since we don’t have TV, we watch movies on the laptop. I do this whole arcane thing where I get cords and connect the laptop and the speakers to an outlet. It takes 10 minutes.”
“It took years for me to realize that I was gay, years more to tell others and more time yet to form any kind of stable emotional bond with another man. Because my sexuality had emerged in solitude – and without any link to the idea of an actual relationship – it was hard later to reconnect sex to love and self-esteem. It still is. But I persevered, each relationship slowly growing longer than the last, learning in my 20s and 30s what my straight friends had found out in their teens.”
“It’s often said that Tom (of Finland’s) greatest achievement was in drawing gay men who were masculine, happy and proud at a time when they were supposed to be effeminate, neurotic and shameful. This is certainly the reason why so many gay men are Tom devotees, wittingly or not. Today’s gay porn is merely footnotes to Tom, endlessly replaying the narrative of ‘regular guys’ with very irregular-sized penises and pectorals having spontaneous, shameless sex at the drop of a monkey wrench.”
“It (homosexuality) was always kind of acceptable on the tennis tour anyway, at least among the women. The guys are very closeted. In fact I don’t know any men that are gay that are in the closet. That’s how closeted they are – I don’t even know who they are. But women, I think, have been more forthright about that for whatever reason.”
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