queerness

[Paul Murphy]

>On 24 Nov 96 at 19:33, Chris Stolz wrote:
>
>> Date:          Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:33:16 GMT
>> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
>> From:          Chris Stolz <chstolz at canuck.com>
>> Subject:       queerness
>
>> I see Pynchon's use of homosexuality (at least in the sections
>> dealing with Mossmoon) as part of the '60s Left's discomfort with
>> homosexuality, which they associated with effete '30s Nazis...one
>> finds this kind of thing showing up in slightly different form in
>> the work of Ken Kesey.

The equation of fascist sympathies and homosexuality is nothing new;
certainly, Kesey and TRP didn't invent it. Have a look at Bertolucci's _The
Conformist_ some time. (I've never seen Visconti's _The Damned_, but I've
heard it spoken of in the same context as Conformist).

Cheers,
Paul

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