Pynchon and homophobia

[Chris Stolz]

Has anybody given any thought to the narrator's use of homosexual
sex (in _GR_) as another way of discussing the perversity of
Them?  There are lots of refrences in _GR_ that use gay sex in
order to describe a cluster of foul things, and gay sex is very
much opposed to the novel's fleeting moments of purity and
straigh t sexual bliss...I guess
the question I'm asking here is whether or not Pynchon's use of
gay sex as an index of perversity is, within the conext of a
loosely left-critical novel, strangely anachronistic/conservative
or part of a deeper purpose I don't quite get.


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