Blicero's Sexuality

[Brian D. McCary]

> From owner-pynchon-l at sfu.ca Mon Mar 25 14:13 CST 1996
> From: RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org (RICHARD ROMEO)
>  
> ... but can 
> anybody give adequate reasons why Blicero is necessarily a homosexual?  
> I.e. what advantage to the book does GR receive by Weissman's sexuality.

I'm not convinced Blicero's sexuality can be classified as gay or 
homosexual.  He clearly has sex with women (witness both Katja and the
woman in Africa in V,) but I wouldn't even call him bisexual.  By the
time he gets to the rocket group, his sexuality revolves around issues
of power, not gender.  Viewed from this perspective, Weissman's sexuality
has an obvious part in the book.

Brian McCary