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gay groups were in '72. They seem largely now to be without politics. But that, of course, I suppose, is the change between the sixties and the seventies; there aren't many extremely radical groups around on ,campuses anymore.

On Being Different

I still get letters from guys in small towns only last week from a town in Tennessee "When things get so terriblei (and this is a boy of twenty-six, twenty-five, twenty-four) that I think I can't stand it anymore -I'll kill myself I go home anc read your book aloud to myself. And I want to tell you how much this has helped me."

That book On Being Different sold about five thousand copies, which is not what one would call a great big best seller. Except, i suppose it's had a much more important effect on the culture and the human race than the Truman book Plain Speaker. Well, wasn't it Gertrude Stein who said, really, if you affect five people strongly, it's much more than affecting five million in a minory way.

So that book has affected a lot of people strongly. And usually for the good, I think, because there is still the feeling -people

laugh at this "Maybe I'm the only one in the world."

Tough Bananas

...

When people say, "You people have ruined the word 'gay'," My only answer to that (is): it seems to me that every minority has the right to choose its own word to describe itself. And if

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On Being Different

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you don't like it, too bad. And if those are the words we have been brought up or conditioned to use, OK.

Nobody has recently said, as they did when my article came

HIGH GEAR

out, "What a word to describe this sad group of people, these tragic people who describe themselves as 'gay'." You don't run into that much anymore. Well, the old cliche' of 'all old homosexuals die lonely and unhappy'... My feeling is that all people die lonely and unhappy, and one's sexual preference really doesn't matter a hell of a lot.

One in One Thousand

The only thing that really disappoints me ... I thought there'd be a long line of people and I think that's the important thing who would say: Yeah, me too.

I mean if Steve Sondheim -despite the fact that he's just written lyrics for a bad musical (in reference to Pacific Overtures)... But if all those guys...

You know, I think Tennessee's book Memoirs coming out though everybody knew. But finally coming out and saying it is important. So that nobody can now go around and say: Well, I don't know any except my little flower dealer, or my little antique dealer around the corner. And, besides, there aren't very many of them, are there.

P.O.'d

There is a nut, a real sexual bigot, in Brooklyn, New York, who writes on the back of post cards, saying "It is well-known that all homosexuals molest

children." And, ... et cetera. And he doesn't address it to be by name. It is addressed to "Brewster's Most Famous Homosexual." I get it.

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When it does open, it will be a full service restaurant with a range of food similair to the Brown Derby with prices allegedly under everyone else's

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The bar and restaurant are planned to be quite spacious according to the proprietors, including two private parlors and a mirrored piano for entertainment five nights a week in the restaruant.

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"We are not a bar," says one spokesperson. "We are not trying to take business from any other bar. "We want to have a whole new scene. We want our community to have a place to go where they can relax and hold hands while eating dinner. We're gentlemen and that's the way the place will be conducted. The standards are high."

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